There is a moment, Carlo Scarpa once suggested, when architecture becomes poetry—not because it imitates verse, but because it attains the same precision of silence. The drawing of a joint, the incision of light on stone, the rhythm of a stair: these are not ornaments, but acts of thought. Architecture, for Scarpa, does not 'express' …
The Hands That Built the Future: On Craftsmanship and the Paradox of Brutalism
It is one of the great paradoxes of twentieth-century architecture: that the buildings which appeared most austere and raw — the massive concrete structures of the 1950s to 1970s — were in fact realized with an extraordinary degree of care, precision, and craft. In an age of economic boom, growing labor costs, and expanding workers’ …
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The Architecture of Self-Reliance: Emerson’s Philosophy in Wright’s Buildings
Every culture is haunted by the question of origins. Where does authenticity begin? For America, two figures answer in remarkably parallel ways—one with words, the other with buildings. Ralph Waldo Emerson, the philosopher of Self-Reliance, and Frank Lloyd Wright, the architect of organic modernism, never met across time, yet their work speaks like two voices …
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Sérgio Ferro: Architecture from the Worksite
Between Architecture and Exile Sérgio Ferro’s path defies linearity. Trained in Brazil under João Vilanova Artigas, he entered the optimism of modernism—only to confront its contradictions. His exile in France, his turn to painting, and his refusal to practice architecture all mark a life shaped by fracture and resistance. Brasília’s Hidden Violence What defined Ferro …
Luigi Monzo 