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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

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

“The Journal of Sciences and Travel”

A review of the 1947-1949 editions

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

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

From Monumental Modernism to Local Bricolage

An interview with Șerban Sturdza

Lifting The Curtain

Central European Architectural Networks

Horia Moldovan

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

From Good Looks to Substance:

Savannah’s Numerous Attempts at Self-preservation

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

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

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

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)

Architectural Pluralism at the Edges.

The Visual Eclecticism of Medieval Monastic Churches in Eastern Europe

Hubert Damisch

Elisabeth Axmann

Ilinca Păun Constantinescu, curator

Shrinking Cities în România. Between Reality and realities – an exhibition

Introduction

Opening Limits

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

Dietmar Steiner

Vassilis Sgoutas

Teodor Octavian Gheorghiu

Anca Brătuleanu

Irina Tulbure

Miruna Stroe

Introduction

Waver / Waiver

Sherban Cantacuzino

(Paris 1928 – London 2018)

The Socio-pol-ethical Confluence of the Architect:

The Idiot, the Activist and the Dreamer

“Don’t Tell Me It Cannot Be Done; We Must Reach an Acceptable Solution!”

Politics, Professionals, and Architectural Debates in Socialist Romania

Caroline Maniaque, Eléonore Marantz, and Jean-Louis Violeau, curators

Oliver Elser, Philip Kurz and Peter Cachola Schmal (eds.)

and

Anette Busse and Dorothea Deschermeier (eds.)

From Neo-Historicism to Capitalist Realism

Irina Calotă

Jessica Joyce Christie, Jelena Bogdanović and Eugenio Gunzmán (eds.)

Valeria Federighi

S. A. Mansbach

Ștefan Simion

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

Third Generation of Modern Architecture and Contemporary Spanish Architecture.

Jørn Utzon’s Legacy

Indefinite Faces of Modernism:

Notes on Design in Interwar and Socialist Romania

Challenging Disregard:

The Case of the Telecommunication Center in Skopje

Modern Monument Preservation in Hungary: Should

We Conserve the Modern Prostheses of Restoration?

Introduction

Architectural Aesthetics, Where To?

Maybe We Should Just Stop Using the Word “Architecture”

An interview with Jeremy Till

The Techno-aesthetical Architectural Dilemma:

Paradigmatic Histories of Reinforced Concrete

An interview with Vlad Gaivoronschi

Katrina OʼLoughlin, Ana Šverko, and Elke Katarina Wittich (eds.)

Beatriz Colomina

Housing Concepts:

Addressing Habitation in Architecture’s Terms

Between Political Agenda and Common Desire:

Genealogy of Socialist Dwelling in Postwar Croatia (1945-1960)

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

At Home in Twentieth-Century Brazil:

An Analysis of Lygia Clark’s Models of Homes and Architectural Interiors

Notes on the Biography of Doors.

Ianualogy in Casa del Menandro, Pompeii

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.),

Andrei Răzvan Voinea, Irina Calotă,

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

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

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,

Ruins That Speak: Ageing Bodies, Collapsing Cities

An interview with Salvatore Settis

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

Making Built Heritage.

Riegl’s Present Values in Adaptive Reuse

The Ruin as Phantasmagoria:

The Faces of Nordingrå kyrkoruin 

Oana Cristina Țiganea,

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