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The book, through a reflection on the paradigm of the informal city and with averification in ΓÇÿcorpore viliΓÇÖ on 10 cities, presents a description of the role that collective space and social organization have in the construction of slums. In addition, an investigation is developed on the role of architecture in the regeneration of settlements. The picture provided by the 10 factsheets on cities, in which the slums represent a phenomenon of great importance, helps to understand the reasons for their birth and development, and, through different perspectives, to understand how to promote a new comprehensive and inclusive urban organization.

European cultural heritage is inherently complex and layered. In the past, conflicting or controversial perspectives on different historical memories and experiences have been colliding in the rich cultural landscape of Europe and continue to do so in the present. Contemporary projects of re-activation of contentious spaces seem to challenge both the traditional design parameters and the role of spatial practitioners. They require new strategies that effectively mix top-down and bottom-up impulses, through a new design approach that is still in search of a clear definition. "Contested Spaces, Concerted Projects" collects the stories of some selected cases of difficult built heritage, in order to highlight the most innovative methodologies of re-activation, by which architects, artists, designers and collectives have developed new participatory public interfaces.

The Atlas of Shame represents the world through the relationships between inhabited space, architecture and the feeling of shame.The book touches 40 countries through 8 themes and asks the reader to reflect and question social, economic, cultural reasons that make us qualify and perceive negatively a building, a city, a neighbourhood.The Atlas is an attempt to measure the values that gather or divide our time, where the meter used is the judgement we give to the ways of living and building space. By combining "the most social of the artsΓÇ¥, the Atlas draws a geography of collective values and emotions; a map of world territories on the border between the intimate and the universal.

The A22 motorway and the history of its project and construction constitute a unique case within the implementation of the Italian motorway network after WWII, mainly due to the exceptional contribution of landscape architect Pietro Porcinai. Complementary narratives have unfolded around the A22, concerning the policies and practices that affected its implementation, the architectural debate surrounding its design and construction and its structural transformations over time. Starting from this peculiar history, and from the study of the current and expected evolution of the motorway, this research investigates the obsolescence of modern infrastructure and the possible strategies of maintenance and preservation.

The book is based on the idea that the model can be considered not only as a tool for representing architecture that aspires to objectivity, but also as a potential conceptual device capable of making ideas visible. The research focuses on a dual question regarding the possibility for the model to reveal itself as a tool that can reveal the formal generative process of architectural design on the one hand and as a conscious contribution to the construction of the design idea on the other. The physical model appears as the most effective working tool for the main characters of contemporary architectural culture. The model is in fact able to ensure the spatial control of three-dimensional simultaneity while also making the generative process visible by telling the story of the project. The research of some contemporary architects such as David Chipperfield, Peter Eisenman, Sou Fujimoto, Frank O. Gehry, Herzog & de Meuron, MVRDV, OMA, are analysed in the light of these hypotheses and verified through the testimonies offered by some of them in the interviews published here.

Nowadays there are many studies, researches and publications about Jože Plečnik’s work, as well as there are many authors who contributed to the knowledge and divulgation of the great Slovenian master work.The text in here, driven in this track, does not have the pretension to add brand new revelations about his work, but using the past litterature, it tries to underline the contemporaneity of his lesson, into urban transformations of the last thirty years’ Ljubljana.The same transformations which allowed Ljubljana to be awarded with prestigious international prizes, such as the European Prize for Public Space (2012) and the one for the Green European Capital (2016).A result achieved by continuing the original urban vision traced by Plečnik in the city modifications plan and its many projects left as an inheritance. This heritage seemed to be precious for the intelligent work of the new administrators of the municipality whom, starting from the sensibility of authoritative experts such as Janez Koželj, have returned to the Slovenian capital its original splendor.They are an integrative part of this story: the presentation of Jurij Kobe, the conversation with Janez Koželj himself and the contribution of Miha Dešman; as well as the photos of Ljubljana, taken by Luigi Ghirri in 1988 (kindly provided free of charge for this pubblication by the Heirs) and the final photographic reportage, on the city today, created by Sergio Camplone in 2018.

This is a text born out of defiance. Often, architecture books that are conceived in universities and that collate the results of this or that lecturer¿s teachings do not succeed in arousing any real interest from the architecturally-minded public, and even less from insiders. These are exercises and examples that are more concerned with expressing correct positions than with venturinginto unfathomed terrain. This volume, rather, aims to take up the challenge of simplifying the texts as much as possible and maximising the seductiveness of the images, turning educational experimentation into a story displaying architecture inspired by novels.It is not a question of illustrating books, but of reviving stories and spaces that are related to them, and that no one has ever seen as urban and landscape environments. This text has deliberately omitted notes and captions on the designs, to help the reader perceive them in a more fluid and immediate manner and to take the reader directly to the centre of worlds unknown.

In this book, a number of protagonists of Italian modern architecture provide vivid dialogues - here taken to mean 'the talking of the soul with itself' - on how they perceive the interaction between idea, design and construction. Drawing on these personal views, Dialogues on Architecture explores the relationship that exists between the poetic and the technical-scientific spheres in architecture, underlining their complementary and conflictual natures. Dialogues on Architecture rejects the interpretation of architecture as orientated exclusively towards the end result and reconnects the previously interrupted narratives that follow a design from its conception to its completion. Featuring texts from Franco Albini, Lodovico B. di Belgiojoso, Guido Canella, Aurelio Cortesi, Roberto Gabetti & Aimaro Isola, Ignazio Gardella, Vittorio Gregotti, Vico Magistretti, Enrico Mantero, Paolo Portoghesi, Aldo Rossi, Giuseppe Terragni, and Vittoriano Viganò.

Platform for change è un osservatorio sul mondo dell'arte, dell'architettura e del design attraverso le lenti di uno dei centri culturali indipendenti più influenti del mondo artistico contemporaneo e uno dei progetti più effervescenti di ripensamento e rinascita di una città moribonda: Farm Cultural Park in Sicilia. Un libro che è anche una mappa e una bussola per orientarsi nella costruzione delle traiettorie necessarie per immaginare e stimolare visioni a tutte le scale, attraverso il racconto specchiato dei modelli ispiratori di Farm e dei processi che Farm stesso ha innescato. Platform for change è la narrazione trasversale di un viaggio tra i paesaggi mozzafiato della rigenerazione urbana globale e locale, delle strategie intelligenti di costruzione della comunità, delle città in cui cittadini si prendono cura degli spazi pubblici. Città dove gli investimenti pubblici e privati sono concentrati nello sviluppo dei luoghi per la cultura, musei, gallerie, biblioteche, teatri, cinema e in attività culturali: eventi performativi, mostre, presentazioni, talk, festival. Il libro è un'esplorazione dentro gli spazi per l'educazione dei bambini e degli adolescenti e anche in quelli destinati alle persone più adulte, dove si sperimentano nuovi modelli per le attività ricettive e ricreative, dove è sempre più prioritario ripensare gli spazi per la mediazione tra popolazioni di etnie, culture, tradizioni diverse. Platform for change è un libro che si legge con tempi, velocità e modalità diverse, dove il contenuto saggistico più scientifico si intreccia a diagrammi elementari e i testi più didascalici commentano immagini cariche di significato; un libro organizzato in cinque capitoli: 1) Start with culture and joy. How to create an atmosphere 2) Take care of people. How to build a community 3) Say Yes we can. How to spread trust and enthusiasm 4) Think happiness is everywhere. How to storytell your city 5) Move! Do something. How to change the world.

Why black is more and more the new black? This issue of Viceversa investigates the gap between the huge mass of dark proposals in the recent architectural production and the lack of theoretical positions aimed to support them. Ten conversations with architects, artists, critics, curators, historians from the various fields of arts and design try to shed some light on this obscure matter.

A reflection on the relationship between landscape and architecture. A reflection on the relationship between landscape and architecture.

The book is a collection of 100 logos designed between 1965 and 2017 by world-renowned Italian graphic designer, Armando Milani.

The book is a collection of 100 posters designed between 1967 and 2017 by world-renowned Italian graphic designer, Armando Milani.

Architect Kuno Mayr has developed a rigorous way of working. Through a long and laborious procedure, things otherwise overlooked are saved from abandonment and neglect so as to reappear transfigured and ennobled as works of architecture.

Tips for architecture beginners

The Economic Crisis has refocused attention on the central nature of the real economy. Industry is once more seen as an opportunity for the future.

Cavity and Limit investigates architecture through the specific research area of the limit, its corrosion and of cavity.

"What does narrating mean? It means more than telling a story. It would be like saying that "The Brotherhood of the Grape" is the story of an old alcoholic who tries to build a wall.