As a concept or idea Europe is a project, the task of thinking and accomplishing universality. Eurocentrism as a concept is specifiable only within the context of modernity and is crucial for thinking modernity. Modernity is here understood as an attitude, as a way of relating to contemporary reality. The efforts to incorporate postcolonialist…[Read more]

Architecture exhibitions are vehicles of architectural knowledge dissemination and constitute sites of methodological innovation. Pivotal for comprehending the place of drawings in architecture exhibitions are: firstly, the rise of architectural drawings’ artefactual value, triggered by a series of exhibitions at Max Protetch, Leo Castelli and R…[Read more]

Today, architectural drawings constitute an important part of major collections of institutions such as the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and the National Museum of the 21st Century Arts in Rome among other institutes. The Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal and the National…[Read more]

The starting point of this paper is the idea that models of architectural and urban historiography that intend to challenge Eurocentrism should place particular emphasis on revealing the different agents that contributed to the realization of architectural and urban projects under study. Archival research plays a major role in bringing to light…[Read more]

Le champ de la représentation en architecture constitue un milieu dans lequel nous pourrions discerner une concrétisation spatiotemporelle des agencements qui ont été formés pour que l’architecte, comme personnage conceptuel, conçoive les rapports entre le fonctionnement technique et le fonctionnement esthétique de l’objet architectu…[Read more]

The paper aims to explore how the reflection on urban scale digitals twins and the debates about the role of commoning practices in architecture and urban design could be combined in a way that would address climate justice and social justice simultaneously. At the core of the arguments developed in the paper is the idea that sustainable…[Read more]

The paper analyses the role of the urban scale digital twins in how we conceive and design urban spaces. The urban scale digital twins are virtual replicas of cities. Within the current context of data-driven societies, they are often used to test scenarios related to sustainable environmental design. An important reorientation for the role of the…[Read more]

The paper focuses on Cornelius Castoriadis and Henri Lefebvre’s approaches and sheds light on imaginary dimension in the politics of self-governance. It shows how tactics of self-governance and the imaginary accompanying them revive all the contradictions between the State reason, on the one hand, and human reason and freedom, on the other hand. C…[Read more]

The paper focuses on the relationship between Zeitwille and impersonality in Mies van der Rohe’s “Baukunst und Zeitwille” (1924). “Zeitwille” expresses simultaneously a Schopenhauerian “will of the age” and a “will of time”. In “The Preconditions of Architectural Work” (1928), Mies claimed that “[t]he act of the autonomous individual becomes ever…[Read more]

The paper takes as its point of departure advocacy planning approaches’ consideration that urban renewal is incompatible with equitable socially effective urban planning strategies. It focuses on analyzing the activities of the Architects’ Renewal Committee in Harlem (ARCH), which was the first organization solely devoted to advocacy planning in…[Read more]