Architecture. Art for Living Area 1996-2025: Editorials

Marco Casamonti is an architect, full professor of architectural design at the Faculty of Architecture in Genoa, and director of the international architecture magazine Area. In 1988, he founded the studio Archea (with Laura Andreini and Giovanni Polazzi), which in 2001, with the contribution of Silvia Fabi, became Archea Associati. Through this practice, he engages in design and research in architecture and industrial design, serving as art director for some of the leading manufacturers of architectural components. He has been Director of the Doctoral School and is currently a member of the Faculty Board of the same PhD program. Over the years, he has taught at the newly established Faculty of Architecture in Parma, and has been invited as a visiting professor at some of the most important foreign universities: Barcelona, Graz, Mendrisio, Zurich, São Paulo, Beijing, and Vancouver. Alongside his work as a designer and educator, he has also pursued critical reflection and in-depth studies on architecture, publishing essays and writings. In 1993, he began collaborating with the international architecture magazine Area, of which he has been Editor-in-Chief since 1995 to the present day.

• Continuity in the architectural experience. Thirty years of areaGame on!ReflectionsModernity and traditionIn favor of the public projectBack to the (town) planBetraying the traditionFocus on constructionBuilding onto buildingsArchitecture and natureAgainst high-techContinuity and interference. Architecture as a permanent memoryDesigning for the citySectionsArchitecture for teaching / to teach architectureNorth-south; geographic differences and cultural identityArea 40: the new generationExpressionism end of the centuryTurning over a new leafContamination/ evocations/identityLess is lightModernity and traditional materialsThe tectonics of decorationArchitecture of empty spacesArchitecture in movementWhat we learned from Roberto Gabetti 1925–2000Architecture after genoaResidential buildingsArchitecture-archaeology. Argument in favor of a groundless, anti-historical conflictThe construction of a wishContemporary retrospective: Rafael MoneoArchitectures for workTo demolish is to loseCompetition: a necessary but insufficient conditionEisenman, history, ItalyThe stadium, its permanence and variationsItalian hopefuls: 800 mentions in the last five yearsVenice biennale: nothing but window dressingThe great Chinese frenzy: or, how to destroy the culture and identity of a countryHighways, railways, dams, viaducts, ports, power lines: the landscape and the great gridThe lesson of Arata IsozakiThe urban measureGeographical scenariosThe architecture of holinessColor as the foundation of the contemporary projectA tower is not a skyscraperGate: or the architecture of interruptionTechnology makes everything possible, but is everything legitimate?Jean Nouvel’s futureThe example of BarcelonaTransforming existing buildings: to save land, reduce traffic and pollution, make the city a better place to liveMonuments or anti-urban icons?VillasSteven Holl architectsMoscow, another storyLocalism versus globalization?The question of size18 years in 100 issuesParisExtra ordinary. Contract at its bestIntroverted architectureArtificial landscapesBuilding simply as simple opposition to buildingThank you Glenn MurcuttMexico City: what it’s like to live in a metropolis with 25 million inhabitantsArchitecture is artAround food: all the design that centers on foodExpo 2010 shanghai “better city, better life”Architecture of the infinite spaceThe beauty of building is not the same as the search for beautyBenedetta’s impetuous dance – an issue on Italian excellences: embt, timeless time, ailatiSão Paulo: the difference between city and metropolisThe beauty of concreteThe need for relaxationNature as traditionWineries: from parts of buildings to portionsThe collective dwelling: yesterday, today, tomorrowGoing against the currentArchitecture for industrySustainable wayEyes which do not see... LinersNew geometriesCino Zucchi: from the mit to the polytechnic and backHamburg, reflections of water and architectureIdentity of the landscape: less aesthetic more ethicsColour, or what unites – and reveals – the distance between warmth and odourRe-thinking the informal cityPlanning along the streetArchitectural typology vs. Behavioural typologyMassimiliano and Doriana Fuksas: the power of imaginationExhibiting, displaying, conveying information in the internet ageFrom the Apennines to the AndesThe value of the clientGrafts, a central issue in the contemporary debateFundamentals for architectureChinese identitiesOn moscow: a necessary prefaceThe world is under constructionThe time of ease and livingThe façade: role and autonomy of the frontSingapore: fifty years of solitudeArchitecture for allThe architecture of places of worship and the search for essential holinessReflections on the earthquake disasterA part worth the wholeHavana: from restauration to renewalSmall structuresPublic natureThe landscape of livingHow to listen to architectureArchitecture versus wineLiving in a complex systemArchitecture: the art of stimulating perceptive skillsThe urban dimension or the extraordinary beauty of the ordinaryPast, present and future in Italian architectureRecreational office spacesArchitecture as an art of hospitalityItalian visionsChicago, the phoenix of americaThe value of sports facilities in times of emergencyAfter lockdown we will start moving around again... But how?The project between water and land100 years of tiranaThe home in the year of the pandemicThe house of educationLeaning against the mountainsThe immortality of stoneCultural identity and designMiracle in MilanEvery architecture is an interiorArt for art’s sakeDesign/food / food/designTall buildings or low buildings, that is the questionTemporary architecture, freedom architectureThe yachting lifeIndustrial reusePerception and colorArchitecture beyond genders and generationsThe place to sellSupernaturalPattern: more than decoration, a precise project strategyWaterA new east-ethical dimensionArchitecture for the art of hospitalityHealthcareRegeneration by lawTransparencyThe kitchen as the essence of the homeIn-out versus in-betweenThe fifth façadeStone and ceramics, the dialogue of materialsCampusConcern about the pre-existing environment makes more sense than everToward a mindful eclecticismThe praise of idlenessMonomateriality, synonymous with elegance