At the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1900, Switzerland presented itself to the world by exhibiting an imaginary synthetic village, making the conflicting features of the various Cantons – which for a few decades gathered under the flag of the Confederat ...
The volume collects the material produced for the exhibition 'The Sky in the Room' and a selection of scientific texts on the question of analogue continuity in digital transition. The contributions will be focused on verifying the operative method in teac ...
Tacitus’ La Germania is a crucial foundation for any literary analysis of the origins of the domestic constructions in the Alps, where two cultures converge: that of the German log builders and the Latin stone masons. These narrative gains strength from th ...
When J. G. Ballard published his masterpiece High-Rise in 1975, many readers in London automatically identified the apartment building that is the protagonist of the dystopian novel as the infamous Trellick Tower at Kensal Town, certainly one of the most c ...
This laconic discourse uses the Aristotelian authority to define the role of the analogical procedure in the government of the architectural composition. Respecting its ambiguous balance between mathematical method and attitude of the imagination, analogy ...
Luca Meda è stato un protagonista del disegno industriale e dell'architettura italiana tra gli anni sessanta e novanta. Mescolando oggetti vivaci ad architetture malinconiche, paesaggi domestici a interni urbani, ha saputo saltare le barriere tra arte, dis ...
Vandœuvres n’est pas une commune ordinaire. Si ses ressources financières sont parmi les plus remarquables du canton de Genève, son patrimoine agricole est tout aussi épatant. Dans un tel contexte, la construction de 36 logements locatifs à caractère socia ...
Ce projet est le résultat d’un travail de recherche et représente une œuvre exhaustive autour de la région « électrique » la plus vaste au monde, l’arc Alpin. L’ouvrage promet un voyage dans l’univers de la centrale électrique, et ce dans un espace géograp ...
L'urbanisation intensive des zones touristiques, le dépeuplement des vallées marginales et le déclin productif des zones de montagne sont les trois principaux phénomènes qui ont caractérisé la transformation de la région alpine au cours des trente dernière ...