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The Linz Café and the concept of "wholeness": Reclaiming the historical feeling of a long-gone building

The purpose of the paper is to discuss "The Linz Café," a building that ceased to exist in 1980. This project was conceived and constructed by Christopher Alexander for the summer exposition "Forum Design" in Linz, Austria. Despite its short-lived existenc ...

2024

Constructing the Dream : Villas on Display in Italy in 1933 and 1964

Michela Bonomo

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. The fate of the villa in contemporary architecture and research culture reflects its ...

2023

Constructing the Dream Villas on Display in Italy in 1933 & 1964

Michela Bonomo

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 ...

2023

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

Michela Bonomo

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 ...

2023

The Fifth Typology

Pier Vittorio Aureli

Conception, organization and introduction Rafael Moneo once said that to talk about type in architecture is to talk about the essence of architecture. Indeed, when conceiving architecture is almost impossible to not start from an existing type, no matter h ...

2023

The Fifth Typology: A Symposium on Type and Architecture

Constantinos Marcou

A type is not a model or an image to be copied, but the deep structure of how things are put together. The Symposium revisits the concept of type by critically reading its previous deﬁnitions and by offering a new interpretation of this rather elusive, but ...

2023

For the House Poor: The Fuggerei as an Early Example of Affordable Housing

Theodora Giovanazzi

Conference abstract: A type is not a model or an image to be copied, but the deep structure of how things are put together. The Symposium revisits the concept of type by critically reading its previous deﬁnitions and by offering a new interpretation of thi ...

2023

‘How To Build a Villa By The Sea’ The Implicit Project of Villa-mania in Post-war Italy (1948-1973)

Michela Bonomo

In the collective imagination the villa is a manifesto of 'the good life’, often representing for architects a laboratory of experimentation and style and an exception in their portfolio. The fate of the villa in contemporary architecture and research cult ...

2023

Forms and Technologies of Italy’s Villa-mania (1955 -1970)

Michela Bonomo

The increasing interest towards the concept of the so called ‘escape from the city’, fueled by the recent pandemic, prompt us to put the holiday villa at the center of research attention. In the collective imagination the villa is a manifesto of 'the good ...

2023

Digital twins of wooden shingle envelopes

Yves Weinand, Farzaneh Eskandari

Wooden shingles have long been used as a vernacular roofing technique in many well-wooded areas. Despite the fact that shingles, as local raw materials, are low in embodied energy, nowadays they are not much used in construction, as the specific craft know ...

2023

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