For much of the twentieth century, architecture was widely understood as a cultural practice in the strong sense of the term. Buildings were not merely shelters or infrastructures; they were carriers of collective values, spatial condensations of political ambition, social ideals, and shared futures. This assumption has become increasingly fragile. The recurrent diagnosis that architecture …
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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Published by Ulrike Gawlik: Innere Kolonisierung – Italien und Deutschland von 1927 bis 1935
Ulrike Gawlik, who has already made an important contribution to Italian studies with her dissertation on the Italian landscape architect Raffaele De Vico (published 2012), now broadens the view with her post-doctoral thesis to the quite mutual influences of Italy and Germany in the 'saddle period' around 1930. In her new book she delves into …
CFP: IOFAN 130 – The Paths of Architecture of the 1920s-1940s
IOFAN 130 - The Paths of Architecture of the 1920s-1940s International Conference, September 15-16, 2021, Central House of the Architect, Granatnyy Pereulok, 7-1, Moscow The Scientific Research Institute of Theory and History of Architecture and Urban Planning, Moscow Centre André Chastel, Laboratoire de recherche en Histoire de l’art, ParisDepartment of Enterprise Engineering ‘Mario Lucertini’, Tor …
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CFP: Paesaggio in transizione. Trasformazione, riordinamento e continuità nell’architettura della città italiana tra le due guerre. (Sorrento, 14-17 giugno 2018)
Adalberto Libera: Casa Pigione, Roma, 1933. CALL FOR PAPERS Annual Conference of the American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS) Sant'Anna Institute, Sorrento (Italy), 14-17 June 2018 Deadline: 30 december 2017 https://aais.wildapricot.org/session_proposals [English version see below] Session 24 Paesaggio in transizione. Trasformazione, riordinamento e continuità nell’architettura della città italiana tra le due guerre. Dopo la prima …
Luigi Monzo 