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What role can interiors play in adapting to the rapidly changing lifestyles of our cities’ inhabitants?Resulting from a study project carried out at the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD – Genève), «Renewing the city from the Within» formulates alternatives to the urban development model centred onbuilding expansion, by proposing scenarios for the renewal, from the inside out, of existing collective housing buildings in Geneva. By analysing a sample of collective housing buildings from the three main periods of the city’s development,the publication develops scenarios aimed at adapting these typologies to a convivial and mixed lifestyle,based on principles of solidarity, hospitality and sharing. At a time when the nuclear family is no longer theonly model and when the boundaries between living and working areas have become porous, the architects of Fagart & Fontana wish to contribute to the reflection on the city’s capacity to renew itself, by making people aware that there is a project territory to invest to rethink contemporary housing.

Lorem Ipsum is an architectural fiction, the outcome of a meeting between an author, Ugo Bienvenu, and the architects of the French Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. This photo-novel has been conceived as an autonomous work, echoing the imaginary nature of the installation proposed for the French Pavilion.

The richness of cultural exchanges between Italy and Switzerland, especially in terms of architectural culture, is the framework within which this publication was conceived and structured. The editorial project retraces and expands some of the themes addressed during the first seven years of the Swiss Talks, born in 2017 as a cultural partnership between the Istituto Svizzero and the architecture magazine Casabella.Based in Rome, Milan and Palermo, Istituto Svizzero is an interdisciplinary platform bringing together artistic and scientific research and maintaining a residency program for emerging young artists and researchers. The series Swiss Talks is part of the public program of Istituto Svizzero.This publication is intended to provide a significant fragment of the cultural project Swiss Talks, born from the collaboration between Istituto Svizzero and Casabella Formazione. Since 2017, it has been promoting Swiss architectural culture in Italy through the organisation of public meetings in Milan, Rome, Palermo, and Venice.The topics, each forming a chapter of the book (Zurich-Milan and return; Architecture in the Age of Tourism; A new life; Architecture as a cultural crossover; Experimental architecture; Art and architecture), are addressed by the invited authors through emblematic projects and short explanatory texts. The diversity, including generational, of the personalities involved reflects and enhances the multiplicity of points of view that is intrinsic to Swiss culture. Avariety of attitudes that also characterises contemporary architectural discourse, reflected in an inclusive and plural book form.Francesca Chiorino (born 1978 in Biella) is an architect, an author and a curator. She studied at Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia and ETSAB Barcelona. She published books and critical texts in magazines and monographic volumes and she has been invited lecturer in conferences. Since 2005 she is member of Casabella magazine editorial board. In 2011 she opened her own architecture studio, and since 2013 she has been involved in conceiving a national architecture award aimed at young architects.Federico Tranfa (born 1966 in Milan) is an architect, an author and a curator. He studied at the Polytechnic of Milan and in Denmark, at the Aarhus Arkitektskolen. In 2002 he opened his own architecture studio with Laura Pasquini, with whom he shares the main professional assignments. Invited lecturer in seminars, conferences, institutions and universities, he published critical texts and essays in magazines and monographic volumes. Since 2013 he has been editor of Casabella and since 2016 member of the editorial board.

Twelve texts on as many architectural masterpieces (from Stonehenge, Giza and the Parthenon to Notre-Dame-du-Haut by Le Corbusier and the Neue Nationalgalerie by Mies van der Rohe): pursuing their project to disseminate the work and thought of Livio Vacchini, Caryatide publish a new edition in English of Capolavori, the small (and immense) milestone, full of meaning and poetry, that the architect from Ticino wrote in 2006 just before his death.Livio Vacchini (1933-2007) is one of the most revered architects of his time. His work was characterized by a constant search for perfection and by a perpetual questioning of architecture's fundamental principles.

"Modernist architecture and the urban transformation of Maputo, Mozambique, between history and modernity.The modernist architecture of Maputo is the protagonist of this book: the ground floors of its buildings serve as a lens to explore the transformation of post-colonial cities, focusing on streets, public spaces and urban change. Giovanna Silva's photography captures the city's evolving landscape and social fabric, while interviews with Ana Tostões and Ana Raquel Machava provide insights into Maputo's architectural heritage and challenges. Architects Matteo Poli and Luca Astorri (AOUMM) discuss its possible futures and enduring legacies, examining globalisation, resilience and identity. The book highlights the dynamic interplay between history and modernity, offering a broader reflection on urban adaptation and transformation in post-colonial contexts; as well as the importance of preserving and studying these modernist structures to create a sustainable and inclusive future for Maputo.Giovanna Silva (born 1980 in Milan) is an Italian photographer, writer and publisher. Her photographic books have been published by Mousse, Hatje Cantz, and Nero among others. Her work has been shown at the 10th and 14th Venice architectural biennales, MACRO in Rome, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice, the Triennale in Milan, the American Academy in Rome, FRAC Orléans, c/o Berlin, the Biennale de Rabat 2019, and the Italian Cultural Institute in New York. She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Humboldt Books and the co-founder of San Rocco magazine. She teaches Photography at NABA Milan, IUAV Venice's master in photography program, and ISIA Urbino.Luca Astorri is an Italian architect, co-founder of the architectural practice AOUMM based in Milan.Matteo Poli is an Italian architect, co-founder of AOUMM."

"A highly personal reflection on the practice, teaching, and very essence of architecture and design.""What is architecture?"" Many great architects, from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to Etienne-Louis Boullée, have grappled with this question. This book has emerged from a process of personal reflection of the author on the practice of architecture and is, in essence, a collection of thoughts on how to understand architecture and architectural design. It does not aim to provide an exhaustive or systematic treatment. These reflections—shaped through teaching—remain personal, even if they aspire to be shared by others.The crux of the argument made here is that the history of architecture should be recognised as the foundational matrix of architectural identity. Starting from this premise, the inquiry delves into the essence of architecture and design; it asks how this discipline can be taught and learned, what constitutes a theoretical text on design, and what defines architectural research. The book addresses those who, much like an architecture student, wish to ""understand better"".Vittorio Pizzigoni was born in Bergamo and graduated in architecture from the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (Iuav), where in 2007 he was awarded a PhD in History of architecture. In 2004 he co-founded the architectural practice baukuh, with which he has taken part in international exhibitions and realised significant works, including Casa della Memoria in Milan (2015) and the European Library of Information and Culture (BEIC) in Milan. He has authored over 150 publications and has taught at various institutions in Italy and abroad. Since 2012 he has been Assistant Professor of Architectural Design, and since 2019 Associate Professor, at the University of Genoa, Italy."

As the self-renewing discipline that is architecture, Caryatide editions picks up the torch ofthe critical magazine—which was their very first form. They wish to enrich the debate aroundarchitecture by bringing a word that confronts to the news. Architecture is at the convergenceof questioning, a discipline nourished by cross-disciplinary approaches. As such, as asignature, Caryatide endeavours to keep a critical point of view, enriched by a social andpolitical look which the architectural discipline depends on, to highlight its complexity andaspirations. For each issue, two contributors are invited to share their thoughts on a new theme. Second issue of the critical magazine Dixit in which the words of the architect Yony Santosfrom the swiss architecture practice TYPICALOFFICE and of Marina Otero Verzier, directorof research at Het Nieuwe Instituut (HNI), confront each other around the theme of “A Matter of Data”. Architecture is still a matter of space, but the understanding of this element is currentlyevolving by the emergence of new forms of electronic and computer-mediated realities. AMatter of Data explores this phenomenon observing the environments and installations thatquestion our experience of space and analyzing the duality and relationships betweenphysical and numerical interfaces of all kinds.

The completion of the crematorium in Ostend, a collaboration between artist Richard Venlet and OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen, gave them the opportunity to look back upon more than fifteen years of working together. This joint effort is based on a shared interest in abstract figures and how they populate and create spaces.

Dixit 04 — On ProcessETH HICConstruction: Jan Kinsbergen, Studio Urbaite, Mario MonottiImage: David KlemmerA visual documentary in the fields of architectonic conception, structural engineering and visualization in the format of a dichotomous atlas. The so called ulti- mate ambition of the real construction site only marks the beginning of another process of appropriation, life cycle analysis and change. Not the finalised project, but rather the raw material traces the process.

This is not an architecture book but a photography book on an architecture that expresses itself through diversity. It is a book that intends to offer a photogra- phic view of buildings in Abidjan that bear the imprint of a certain «tropical modernism». More precisely, Album Architectures, Abidjan is the testimony of an encounter between two individuals who live and share an aesthetic and emotional attach- ment to the lagoon city. Issa Diabaté, architect, contemporary actor of the architectural future of this city that never stops reinventing itself. François-Xavier Gbré, a photographer who has made architecture his preferred medium for apprehending the muted history of places by envisaging architectures as the sedimen- tary traces of the social and political changes of a country, the Ivory Coast. This book, and the Album Architectures collection more broadly, aims to initiate a reflection on the defini- tion of the notion of contemporary heritage through the valorisation of rich and singular architectural lands- capes, not always identified, often invisibilised, of cities in perpetual urban change.