TEN YEARS OF FESTIVAL OF ARCHITECTURE 2004-2014, Carlo Quintelli
Dear friends of the Festival of Architecture, By now ten years have passed since the first edition of an event that was born to build a bridge between the university environment of architectural research and the world of… 10.12838/issn.20390491/n29.2014/edit
POLIS AND ARCHITECTURE, Renato Nicolini
What can the polis do for architecture? A good question, that turns the old habit of wondering what architecture might do for the polis… 10.12838/issn.20390491/n29.2014/1
WERE WE MAESTROS?, Aimaro Isola
Here we describe the works and discuss the “young people” who were students of varied schools of architecture. Those who were their Maestros in some way… 10.12838/issn.20390491/n29.2014/2
GLOSSARY FOR THE EUROPEAN CITY, Yannis Tsiomis
Starting from Giuseppe Samonà’s notion of “city in extension”. 1. Extension: an ascertainment and a paradox,… 10.12838/issn.20390491/n29.2014/3
SYMBOL AND CONCEPT IN THE WORK OF RICARDO PORRO, David Bigelman
The notion of content in architectural works is a theme that Ricardo Porro himself had already widely developed in.… 10.12838/issn.20390491/n29.2014/4
END GAMES. NOTES ABOUT HEJDUK’S ARCHITECTURE, Guido Zuliani
The whole of John Hejduk’s artistic work amounting to roughly 15 volumes and as many structures, both temporary and permanent… 10.12838/issn.20390491/n29.2014/5
PLACES TO CRITICIZE, Sergio Pace
Does architectural criticism exist? And, if it does exist, what are its methods, assessment parameters, unavoidable capital virtues… 10.12838/issn.20390491/n29.2014/6
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Materia Arquitectura 31
Guest editors: Carlos A. Segura y Richard Gerald—Rondón Institutions are inevitable conventions. They classify, create temporalities, remember and forget precedents, and authorize or censor narratives. They capture the shifting features of reality in order to serve...