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In the wealthy and orderly city of Geneva, Switzerland, accommodation centres built in haste between the 1950s and the 1980s to house seasonal guestworkers from southern Europe are still standing and still inhabited. Today's residents are precarious worker ...
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD2023

Villas through Press. The Endorsement of the Escape by Hoepli and Görlich in Postwar Italy

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In the collective imagination, the villa is a manifesto of ‘the good life’, often representing for architects a laboratory for stylistic experimentation, as an exception in their portfolio. The fate of the villa in contemporary architecture and research cu ...
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Constructing the Dream Villas on Display in Italy in 1933 & 1964

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The increasing interest in the concept of the so-called ‘escape’ from the city, fueled by the recent pandemic, puts the holiday villa at the centre of research attention. In the collective imagination, the villa is a manifesto of 'the good life’, often rep ...
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Villa: Type or Model? Framing a Contradiction in the Context of Post-war Italy

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EPFL Lausanne2023

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Objectives (i) to create a shortened version of the Action Research Arm Test scale, (ii) to investigate its psychometric properties compared to the original scale and (iii) to externally validate it within an independent cohort. Design Prospective longitud ...
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD2022

Changing habits in the cycling subculture: the case of two bike workshops in France

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What is good, less good, or bad architecture? This issue of OASE examines how shifting appreciations, for very diverse reasons, can function as a productive misunderstanding, and as a lever to advance architectural criticism and pry thinking about architec ...
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