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Foreword
Introduction
…the professional culture is also about the numerous books piling on top of one another
Interview with Nicolae Lascu
Reading and Writing Architecture
Polish Architectural Magazines (1945-1989)
“Taste Must Arise from the Doctrine”
Architecture in the Hungarian Cultural Media in the 1960s
When “Words Fall on Deaf Ears”
An Outline of Albania’s Socialist Architecture
Star-topped Spires and Cardboard Heroes
Soviet Socialist Realism in Arhitectura R.P.R.
From_ Casa Scânteii_ to Casa Poporului and Back
Architecture as Icon of a Totalitarian Regime
Thinking about the Bauhaus from the Other Side: the History of the Bauhaus Kolloquium in Communist Germany
Civic Centers under Ceaușescu’s Rule
The Failure to Articulate a Professional Discourse
From Printed Word to Bureaucratic Negotiation
Housing Projects for Workers during the 1950s in Romania
On what and how
Architectural Magazines in the School Library (1945-1989)
The Bulletin of Technical Information
A Tale from the Golden Age
Testing the Physiognomy of the Arhitectura Magazine (1952-1989)
“The Journal of Sciences and Travel”
A review of the 1947-1949 editions
Everything from Plastic: Promise and Utility in the German Democratic Republic
Around a Fortunate Series of Publications and Events
Introduction:
Behind the Big Picture
An Alien Practice
“Town Architects” in 19th Century Romania
Getting Global, Staying Local
The Turmoil of the First Steps towards Scientific Urban Planning – the Case of Cincinat Sfințescu
Architect Florea Stănculescu or On Modernism in the Romanian Interwar Architecture as Negotiation Between Genius Loci and Zeitgeist
Ascanio Damian, Trade Fair Designer Extraordinaire
Rediscovering “The Australian Ugliness”
Robin Boyd and the Search for the Australian Modern
“…the city as a part of nature and concrete as a kind of earth”
Japanese Architecture Meets 1960s–1980s Romanian Modernism
Re-viewing and Reimagining Paul Rudolph’s Brutalist Architecture in the USA and Southeast Asia
Professor Alifanti’s Notebooks
From Monumental Modernism to Local Bricolage
An interview with Șerban Sturdza
A Biennale of Knowledge
On Fundamentals
Lifting The Curtain
Central European Architectural Networks
Reviewing George Matei Cantacuzino
Horia Moldovan
Johann Schlatter. Western Culture and Romanian Architecture (1831-1866)
On Architecture, Tourism and Politics on the Seaside
Walking a fine line
Enchanting Views – Romanian Black Sea Tourism Planning and Architecture of the 1960s and ‘70s
Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean World in the Early Modern Period:
Pathways of Art between East and West
Introduction
Avatars of an Elusive Concept
… this is something we could dwell on, and create something new, perhaps even more stable in terms of urbanity
An interview with the German architect and urban planner Thomas Sieverts
Urbanitas against Urbanism: a Latin Paradox
Created Memories: (Mis)identification of Monuments in Early Modern Rome
Building Urbanity in Bucharest
Reyner Banham and Aldo Rossi. Two Possible Urban Images of the “Second Machine Age”
The Architectural Image of Kiev’s Central Square as a Symbol of National Identity
From Good Looks to Substance:
Savannah’s Numerous Attempts at Self-preservation
Rua de Macau 澳門街 – Heterotopic Urbanity in the Celebration of Place, Memory and Identity
Of Other Spaces in Berlin:
On Urban Transformation and Romanian Roma
Don’t Forget the Streets:
New York City Hardcore Punk and the Struggle for Inclusive Space
Urbanity and Civil Society.
The Rise of a New Urban Generation in Bucharest during the 2000s
Urbanity and the Right to Difference
Changing Perspectives of Urbanity during Socialism and after:
the Case of Two Neighborhoods in Skopje
The City as Collaborative Field.
Tackling Informal Spatial Practices in Bucharest
Learning from Ourselves
Toader Popescu. The Romanian Railway Project (1842-1916)
Grigor Doytchinov, Alexandra Ðukić, Cătălina Ioniță (eds.). Planning Capital Cities: Belgrade, Bucharest, Sofia
Introduction
Inquiries on the Idea of Margins in the Theory of Architecture and Urban Planning
Marginal Theory
Restoring Poiēsis in Architecture
Making the Brain of the System Mad. Or Not
Critical Encounters between Marginal Practices and Their Narrated Self
Informal Structures. An Eulogy to Making
Analogous Urbanism as Discourse
Robert Adam and Urban Space in Contemporary Split
“A Fabulous Painting in which I Would Live”
Paul Delvaux’s Pictorial Poetic of the Railway Periphery between Art and Urban History
Reclaiming a Land of Overlapping Frontiers
The Romanian Seaside until the 20th Century
On the Nation’s Margins.
Territorial and Urban Policies during the Romanian Administration of Southern Dobrudja (1913-1940)
Cities of Transylvania and the 1921 Agrarian Reform. Negotiations and Decisions Halfway Between Administrative Autonomy and Centralization
Architectural Pluralism at the Edges.
The Visual Eclecticism of Medieval Monastic Churches in Eastern Europe
Monumental Marginalia. Borders of Space and Authority in Contemporary Melbourne
The Liberation of Identity. The Margin Redraws the Museum – a Preliminary Study
The Monastery of Curtea de Argeș and Romanian Architectural Heritage in the Late 19th Century
The Productive Role of Margins. Architectural Discourse in the Late 1960s Romania
Architecture as a Margin within the Negotiation between Reality and Utopia
Protest and Marginalized Urban Space. 1968 in West Berlin
Hubert Damisch
Noah’s Ark. Essays on Architecture
Elisabeth Axmann
Wege, Städte – Erinnerungen
Ilinca Păun Constantinescu, curator
Shrinking Cities în România. Between Reality and realities – an exhibition
Introduction
Opening Limits
Architecture and the City: the Space of Participation
Urban Walls: Examination and Possible Restoration.
Two Case Studies
Reframing Urban Boundaries:
Lima’s Urban Black Holes
The Encounter at the Margins of City and Society:
the Case of the Aerodrom Housing Area in Skopje
Porosity and Collisions.
About Bucharest and its Limits
The City in a Building:
a Brief Social History of Urban Hong Kong
Interior Public Spaces.
Addressing the Inside-Outside Interface
Constructed Jewish Spaces. Exploring Traces in 19th Century Moldavia
The Architecture of Margins: an Exploration of Civic Architecture and its Representation of Political Administration in Sarajevo, Ljubljana, and Skopje
The Fiction of the Equal: Boundary Disappearance and Border Neutralization in the American City
The Fences We Build
Dietmar Steiner
Steiner’s Diary. About Architecture Since 1959
Vassilis Sgoutas
A Journey with the Architects of the World
Re-opening the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade. Notes on Non-alignment and the Canonical
Teodor Octavian Gheorghiu
Small Towns / Large Villages in Southwestern Romania. Urban Monographs
Anca Brătuleanu
Interwar Timişoara. Urbanism and Architecture
Irina Tulbure
Architecture and Urbanism in Romania, 1944-1960: Constraint and Experiment
Miruna Stroe
Housing, between Design and Political Decision-making. Romania, 1954-66
Introduction
Waver / Waiver
Sherban Cantacuzino
(Paris 1928 – London 2018)
The Socio-pol-ethical Confluence of the Architect:
The Idiot, the Activist and the Dreamer
Architecture and Politics: The Ideology of Consensus Versus the Reality of Dissensus
Henri Coandă’s Prefabricated Dwellings Between France and Romania
The Shape of Social Policies. Architectural Experiences in London Between 1964 and 1979
“Don’t Tell Me It Cannot Be Done; We Must Reach an Acceptable Solution!”
Politics, Professionals, and Architectural Debates in Socialist Romania
Modern Architecture as an Agency of Political Competition: The Case of Iran and Pakistan
Reverse-engineering Political Architecture. The House of the People and Its Hidden Social Effects
1870-2018. Russia and the Balkans. The Case of the Unbuilt Orthodox Church in Cetinje, Montenegro
Colin Rowe and Aldo Rossi. Utopia as Metaphor of a New City Analogous to the Existing One
What Light Can a School Project Shed on Politics?
Politics of Self-reference. Self-sufficient Discourses in 1980s Architecture
Caroline Maniaque, Eléonore Marantz, and Jean-Louis Violeau, curators
Mai 68. L’Architecture aussi
Oliver Elser, Philip Kurz and Peter Cachola Schmal (eds.)
SOS Brutalism: A Global Survey
and
Anette Busse and Dorothea Deschermeier (eds.)
Brutalism: Contributions to the International Symposium in Berlin 2012
From Neo-Historicism to Capitalist Realism
“po·mo·stroika – Postmodern Theories, Practices and Histories in Central and Eastern Europe”
Irina Calotă
Beyond the Center. Housing Policies in Bucharest (1910-1944)
Jessica Joyce Christie, Jelena Bogdanović and Eugenio Gunzmán (eds.)
Political Landscapes of Capital Cities
Valeria Federighi
The Informal Stance. Representations of architectural design and informal settlements
S. A. Mansbach
Advancing a Different Modernism
Ștefan Simion
Ambiguity of the Masterpiece.
Livio Vacchini through 11 Dialogues
Introduction
The Historicity of Modernism
... Modernism survived on the dream of austerity and the dream of not playing the game of consumerism
A conversation with Stanislaus von Moos on the rooftop terrace of the Getty Research Institute
The Modern Nostalgia
Architecture, Autonomy, Philosophy
The Morality of Bricks
Reflexive Modernism and Weak Thought
Third Generation of Modern Architecture and Contemporary Spanish Architecture.
Jørn Utzon’s Legacy
Mélange Modernism: Case Studies of Alternative Architectural Practices at the Crossroads Between Modernism and Postmodernism
Up and Down: Extra Spaces of Modernist Legacy in Montenegro
Appropriations: Competing Modernisms in Transylvanian Railway Architecture, 1930s - 1940s
Indefinite Faces of Modernism:
Notes on Design in Interwar and Socialist Romania
Flights of Fancy – the Modernist Terminal in the 21st Century: The Cases of Gander International Airport, Canada and Trans World Airlines, USA
Heritage Obscured: Undesirable Legacies of the Prior Department Stores in Slovakia
Modernism and Changing Historical Context. Case Study of the Former Electric Power Distributor Station of the Hungarian Electrical Grid
Challenging Disregard:
The Case of the Telecommunication Center in Skopje
Modern Monument Preservation in Hungary: Should
We Conserve the Modern Prostheses of Restoration?
Meeting Modernisms in Gdynia
Martin Kohlrausch Brokers of Modernity. East Central Europe and The Rise of Modernist Architects, 1910-1950
_Non-Referential Architecture: ideated by Valerio Olgiati, written by Markus Breitschmid _
Introduction
Architectural Aesthetics, Where To?
Maybe We Should Just Stop Using the Word “Architecture”
An interview with Jeremy Till
The Socio-spatial Aesthetics of Raumbildung
Discreet Aesthetics: Notes on Heinrich Tessenow’s Architecture and Collective Housing
Designing Under the Impact of the Land Issue – from Sitte to Bernoulli
The Aesthetic Component in Early 20th Century Urban Plans of Rijeka
The Interplay of Philosophy and Architectural Aesthetics in the Work of Karola and Ernst Bloch
The Futility of the Collaborative Modernist Gesamtkunstwerk: A Goodmanian Explanation
The Necessary Ornament. About Decor et Ornamentum in Architecture
Cultivating Feelings
The Matter of Touch – the Case of Asmara
Rediscovering the Aesthetics of Architecture: From Geoffrey Scott to Mark Foster Gage
Perceptions Then and Now. The Aesthetic Features of Byzantine Architecture
Picturesque Features in Sir John Soane’s Museum
The Aesthetic Resistance of Iranian Architects and Artists During the Late Pahlavi Era
The Techno-aesthetical Architectural Dilemma:
Paradigmatic Histories of Reinforced Concrete
Chinese Aesthetics and the Culture of Replica
Junk Playgrounds. The “Anti-Aesthetics” of Play in Post-World War II Playground Design
Feeling Colder: Ecology, Aesthetic and the Design of the Man-made Environment in the Early 1970s
The (Un)Aesthetics of Radical Architectural Installations
Comment doit-on mesurer l’émotion?
An interview with Vlad Gaivoronschi
Katrina OʼLoughlin, Ana Šverko, and Elke Katarina Wittich (eds.)
Discovering Dalmatia: Dalmatia in Travelogues, Images and Photographs
Beatriz Colomina
X-RAY Architecture
Housing Concepts:
Addressing Habitation in Architecture’s Terms
Looking at the Circulation of Models and Ideas Beyond Political Barriers Is of Crucial Importance
Normalizing the Home. A Synchronic Comparison Between the Ikéa Catalogue and God Bostad
Between Political Agenda and Common Desire:
Genealogy of Socialist Dwelling in Postwar Croatia (1945-1960)
Floor Area. Customizing the Socialist Standard of Good Life in a Soviet Summer Cottage
The Question of Housing, Between Crisis and Opportunity. The Case of CIAM VI
Charlotte Perriand’s Équipement : Beyond Modern Furniture
Designing Playspaces for the Emerging Society of Car Owners in Post-War Council Housing in Britain
The Condominio: The New Housing Model During the Italian Boom
The Pursuit of Low Cost and Good Quality.
The Changing Judgement of Pre-Designed Family Houses in Hungary
Beyond Façades:
The Berlin Block and the Housing Issue at IBA 1987
Emergency Housing in Romania:
Adapted or Specifically Designed
Aspects of Domestic Living in the Mass-Media Society
At Home in Twentieth-Century Brazil:
An Analysis of Lygia Clark’s Models of Homes and Architectural Interiors
Life in Kit Form. Mass Customization in Playful Housing Experiments (Belgium, 1968–1983)
Housing Agency
Notes on the Biography of Doors.
Ianualogy in Casa del Menandro, Pompeii
Regeneration and Heritage: Considering Static Heritage Narratives in Housing-Led Regeneration
Domesticity Within a Historical Centre: A Case for Safeguarding Diocletian’s Palace
Low-Rise High-Density “Semi-Collective” Housing. Thoughts, Ideas, and Proposals Over Four Decades
An Interview with Teodor Octavian Gheorghiu by Ana-Maria Zahariade
Valeria Federighi, Monica Naso, Daniele Belleri (eds.),
Eyes of the City. Architecture and Urban Space After Artificial Intelligence
Andrei Răzvan Voinea, Irina Calotă,
Houses for Workers and Civil Servants.
Autonomous Company for Housing and Vatra Luminoasă (1930-1949)
Le Temps Retrouvé
Play Is All about the Interplay of Chance and Rule
An interview with Rodrigo Pérez de Arce by Ana Maria Zahariade and Radu Tudor Ponta
Shelter Oddity
Revisiting the Concept of Ephemerality
in the Counter-Culture Architecture of the 1960s:
Inflatable Structures
The Lastingness of the Ephemeral.
The Presence of Textiles in Contemporary Architecture
Ephemeral Gardens Designed to Last.
The Perennial Movement in Landscaping
Between Material Permanence and Digital Evanescence.
3D Projection Mappings during the Festivals of Cluj
Fleeting Moments, Floating Monuments.
Ritual Machines of Performativity:
Reading Ptolemy Philadelphus and Aldo Rossi
The Dissimulation of the Timeless.
Notes on Eisenman’s “The End of…”
When Attitudes Become Form. Temporary Urban
Interventions Between Art and Urban Planning
Commoning “Bucla” (the Loop) With Conviviality.
Ephemeral Spaces and Informal Practices in Support of Urban Commons in the Post-Socialist City
Constructing Temporary Urban Commons
Through Civic Engagement in Bucharest
From Temporary Spatial Practices to Permanent
Architectural Forms. The Case of “La Terenuri” from
Mănăștur Neighborhood, Cluj-Napoca
Challenging the Solidity of Romanian
Communist Civic Centers
The Time of Ephemeral Architecture
Encapsulated Masculine Dreams:
The Cultural and Material Impermanence of the
Nakagin Capsule Tower
Permanent Palaces and Transient Rooms:
Uplotnenie or the Introduction to Ephemerality in the
Soviet Domestic Interior
Knots in Time:
The Ghost Estates of Ireland’s Celtic Tiger
Copresences
Nemere Kerezsi, Thiemann-Etüde
Riccardo Dalisi ‘71-‘74. Il Rione Traiano di Napoli
e la partecipazione come progetto
Alexandru Sabău,
Arhitectura de hârtie: forme alternative de creație
arhitecturală în România anilor 1980
Of Specters and Phantasms: an Introduction
Ruins That Speak: Ageing Bodies, Collapsing Cities
An interview with Salvatore Settis
The Inhabitability of Ruins: A Cultural History
Three Architectures, Three Times and Three Places in the Ruins of the Parthenon
The Age of Ruinenlust
An Exploration of Tourism and Ruins in the Urban Context, in Rome, during the Grand Tour
Ancient Places of Performance as “Realms of Memory”.
The Case of Greece
Thessaloniki: The Modern Museum of an Ancient City
On Ruins in 19th Century Romania
Making Built Heritage.
Riegl’s Present Values in Adaptive Reuse
Contemporary Spolia: Afterlives of Ruins in Fragments
The Circular Destiny of Ruins — The Case of the Convent of San Michele in Borgo, Pisa
The Ruin as Phantasmagoria:
The Faces of Nordingrå _kyrkoruin _
Between Visible and Imagined City. Architecture and Ruins in Oswald Mathias Ungers’ Work
“Berlin, a Housing Block by Bruno Taut Will Be Demolished”. Álvaro Siza in the “Taut City” (1975-1988)
Ruin Figures and Ruin Fields of the Contemporary: The Post-Industrial _Parc à fabriques _
Landscaping Ecosystems or the Taste for a Nature in Ruins
Authentic Ruins or Authentic Reconstructions?
Dirty Ruins and Their Online Afterlives
Oana Cristina Țiganea,
_The Rise and Fall of Romanian “Steel Fortresses” and the Case of Hunedoara, 1949-1999. Built and _
_Environmental Legacies of Socialist Industrialisation _
The Art of Urban Design. Post-Industrial Regeneration in the Work of Marcel Smets
Curators: Cristina Purcar (project coordinator), Ovidiu Leuce, Andreea Milea Centrul de interes, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
September 15th – October 5th, 2023
Constructed Geographies: Paulo Mendes da Rocha
Curators: Jean-Louis Cohen and Vanessa Grossman; Scientific Consultant: Catherine Otondo; Exhibition project: Eduardo Souto de Moura and Nuno Graça Moura
Casa da Arquitectura — Portuguese Centre for Architecture, Matosinhos, Portugal
May 26th, 2023 – February 25th, 2024
Horizontality
Riverscape as Horizon: Reconceptualizing Rivers as the Lifeblood of the Land
Highway Natural Borderscapes. The Landscape Potential of
Infrastructural Residual Spaces in the Case of Milan Ring Roads
Which Landscape? Material Traces of an Integrated
Design and Research Approach in Kiruna
The Art of Competition. Superordinary Changes
in the Cultural Landscape of Cluj-Napoca
The Vanishing Collective Farm Remains of Lithuanian
Rural Landscape: Houses of Culture
Cultural Landscapes of Banat:
Experimenting and Understanding the Territory
Between Inherited Rurality and the Contemporary
City. Bucharest: “Processual” Urban Landscape in the
Traditional Fabric
“Blut und Boden”: Naturalizing the Nation.
Landscape Design as an Identitarian Tool
Delirious Jerusalem: Decoding a Sacred Terrain
Built to Vanish: When Landscape Made Architecture
and Authorship Disappear
The Architecture of Seaside Promenades as Threshold.
A Mediterranean Case
Ecological Urban Networks
“More-than-Human” Urban Rehabilitation
Lines of Sight, Lines of Site: Sverre Fehn, Arne Næss, and Joined Methods in Environmental Representations
The Forms of Dialectic. Gianugo Polesello and the “Venice Laboratory”
Regenerative Landscapes – Designing the Transition
A New Horizon for Architecture
The Fantastic Funicular. The Last Year in Old Clothes
Landscape as Architecture
Gae Aulenti (1927 – 2012)
Cristina Baldacci, Shaul Bassi, Lucio De Capitani and Pietro Daniel Omodeo, editors
Lino Bianco, Il-Monument tal-Ħelsien: Mintoff u l-abbozzi tad-disinji ta’ Agius
Working Orders
Landscapes after Labor. Notes on Industrial Heritage and Transformation
Fish, Ships, Shoes, and Seaplanes: Industrial Speculations on the North Atlantic Sea
Architecture as a Tool of Social Modernization: Social Centers in Sümerbank Textile Factories During Early Republican Türkiye
The Impact of the Boris Kidrič Ironworks on the Urban Development and Spatial Identity of Nikšić Through Workers' Settlements and Infrastructure
Housing as a Living Part of Industrial Heritage: Contemporary Approach in Company Town of Zlín
Vita activa: From Home to Factory. Two Round-trip Commutes in Le Corbusier and SANAA
A Different Narrative on "Industrial Homework": The Sewing Machine in Domestic Space and Its Promotion Under the Communist Regime
Transforming Rural Communities: Women's Influence in Sugar Factories in Early Republican Türkiye
Industrial Heritage in Science Fiction: Decay as Narrative and Visual Device
Invisible Work, Visible Ruins: At the Moment of Transformation
Toxi-City: From Reuse to Regeneration. Reimagining Taranto's Post-Industrial Landscape Through the Former Circumarpiccolo Railway
Architectural and More: Contemporary Transformations of Labor
Bucharest in the Industrial Age: Two Jewish Trade Schools
Three Narratives Surrounding the Cluj Tobacco Factory
The Labor of Women: Domestic Spaces and Social Transformations in Industrial Bucharest during the Interwar Period
Parallel Universes. Exploring Potential Resurrections of a Factory
Landscape Regeneration of Ex-Industrial Sites Along the Lower Danube: From Academic Perspective to Local Action
From Factory to Design Framework: An Instrument Across Scales for the Reinvention of the Rulmentul Platform
"Steaua Română" Refinery: The Landmark Without a Community
Industrial Architecture Between Heritage Protection and Intellectual Property Law: Reflection on "Steaua Română" Oil Refinery Complex
Spaces in Transition — Notes from the International Conference on Adaptive Reuse