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This article analyzes the episode of the demolition of the historical National Theatre of Tirana in 2020, which will be replaced by a new building and by residential luxury housing towers. The text focuses on the dialectical relationship between the buildi ...
The phase of economic and humanitarian emergencies after the Great War functioned as a laboratory for architects to develop quick, rational responses. But socialist visions became stuck in privatization, and values of a bygone society were maintained by pr ...
Nowadays, the energy efficiency of the existing building stock is internationally accepted as a topical issue. Energy retrofitting is encouraged, improving the thermal performances of buildings, but often altering the historical image of our cities. Attent ...
This dissertation interrogates postcolonial cities’ syncretic territories, using Huế’s mnemonic sites – historically and culturally significant locales that aid in remembrance – to explore displaced communities’ cohabitation tactics and decolonization effo ...
Fritz Haller (1924-2012) developed building systems Maxi (industrial halls), Midi (offices), and Mini (private homes) in the mid 1960’s with USM (current Haller-designed furniture manufacturer). Rejecting the individuality of most architectural projects, H ...
Despite its evolution over the past two centuries, heritage preservation has stayed primarily a top-down retrospective act with a material bias that entails a separation between tangible and intangible, nature and culture, especially within the postcolonia ...
In a society that recognizes the urgency of safeguarding the environment and drastically limiting land transformations and energy-intensive activities like constructing new buildings, the protection of architectural and environmental heritage is no longer ...
‘Concrete: Cosmetic and Care’ focuses on a heavy heritage: the mass of mainly post-war structures in reinforced concrete. The post-war building boom covered the globe with an unprecedented amount of concrete. Production of every ton of cement alone release ...
At the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1900, Switzerland presented itself to the world by exhibiting an imaginary synthetic village, making the conflicting features of the various Cantons – which for a few decades gathered under the flag of the Confederat ...
Latest European Union programs related to energy efficiency underline the need for retrofitting existing buildings, which are responsible for 40% of EU total energy consumption. Accounting for almost 45% of the existing building stock, the architecture of ...