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Design Studio on the Conception of Space

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So What? Leon Battista Alberti and the Invention of the Architectural Project

Pier Vittorio Aureli

The essay focuses on the way Leon Battista Alberti conceptualized the architectural project by investigating all the aspects of his work from theory to practice. The article attempts a global reading of the Albertian project giving emphasis on its social a ...

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From College to Campus: The Architecture of the College from the Middle Ages to Jefferson

Marson Korbi

Beyond monastic tradition, rules, statutes, and codes regulating conduct and behaviors gave origin to university colleges and the figure of the student. Since Middle Ages, plans on education were brought by reformers, moralists, and educators of different ...

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Poverty and Architecture: The Fuggerei as an Early Example of Affordable Housing

Theodora Giovanazzi

As Rafael Moneo asserted in his seminal article “On Typology,” the emergence of a new type can be considered a tangible signifier of changed architectural and historical circumstances, new modes of production, or social attitudes towards specific subjectiv ...

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Patronage as Collaboration. Dante Bini’s Villas in Sardinia

Michela Bonomo

In 1970 on the rugged coast of Costa Paradiso on the Italian island of Sardinia, the encounter between one of the most renowned Italian film directors, Michelangelo Antonioni, and an architect with an engineering vision, Dante Bini, produced a holiday vill ...

2023

How can one construct spatial histories and architectural theories from gestures, words and voices, bodies and minor threads? This research delves into oral and embodied architectural and spatial knowledge as modes of producing buildings, spaces and spatia ...

EPFL2022

“El Pórtico de los Huéspedes”: Exploring other ways of building at the Open City in Valparaiso, Chile

Patricia Guaita, Raffael Baur

This chapter examines the pedagogical approach of the Valparaiso School of Architecture and Design (Valparaiso), its position within the Chilean academic landscape and the current collaboration with the Open City Research Platform. Since 2014, this collabo ...

Routledge2022

The Horizontal Metropolis. The Anthology

Paola Viganò, Martina Barcelloni Corte

This book draws together classic and contemporary texts on the “Horizontal Metropolis” concept. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it explores various theoretical, methodological and political implications of the Horizontal Metropolis hypothesis. Assemb ...

Springer2022

Prototype pavilion in Fribourg: towards an upgrade of argamassa armada through Textile Reinforced Concrete

Patricia Guaita

This article describes a partnership between architects and engineers researching in Switzerland and Brazil around innovative experiences on Textile Reinforced Concrete, which aim at the upgrade of the “argamassa armada” technology developed by brazilian a ...

2022

Villa Scutoïde. Espace (con)divisé

Alessandro Tiezzi

« La diversité dans la ville est une qualité que nous pouvons et devons cultiver », ces mots de Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani encouragent à concevoir des manières de vivre différentes des modèles domestiques contemporains. La recherche intense de nouvelles f ...

2022

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Drawing constitutes a very powerful and critical tool of conceptual design. Drawing constructs thought, it acts as a communication interface between the work and the mind and between different disciplines; it is the most powerful language of communication ...

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