2025, Volume 59, Number 3 – 4
Scientific studies
Vers une Architecture – Complexity and Contradiction – S, M, L, XL: Three Bibles of Architecture?
The article analyzes and compares Le Corbusier’s Vers une architecture, Robert Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction, and Rem Koolhaas’s S, M,…
Toward Le Corbusier’s Thinking in Vers une Architecture
The paper attempts to analyse the thought that lies behind the book Toward an Architecture. What are the typical methods…
Towards the Manifesto: Tracing a Genre at the Crossroads of Architectural Theory and Practice
The paper addresses the ontological and epistemological problem of characterizing and defining the architectural manifesto and aims to identify the…
The Whole City Is Covered with Greenery: Le Corbusier and His Vision of a New Urban Landscape
Le Corbusier’s Towards a New Architecture is usually read as a manifesto promoting an engineering approach to architecture that is…
From Standardization to Chaos: Everyday Life in Architectural Manifestos
A vital factor shaping the social and cultural practices of the 20th century was research into the phenomenon of everyday…
Architecture and Social Dreaming: Three Generations of Attempts to Revolutionize Architecture, from Le Corbusier to Ant Farm and Critical Speculative Design
The following paper analyzes three architectural manifestos from the 20th and early 21st centuries: Le Corbusier’s Towards a New Architecture,…
The impact of Le Corbusier’s theories on Japanese architectural culture. From Towards an Architecture to the Metabolism Manifesto: Paris-Tokyo 1923-1960
Le Corbusier’s Vers une Architecture stands as a key modern manifesto whose influence extended to Japan and the emergence of…
Reviews
Historical Lessons from Post-war Experiences in Dialogue with the Future of Ukrainian Cities
Architecture After War: A Reader, 2024 Kryzhanovsky, Bohdan (ed.) London/Kyiv: MACK, CANactions ISBN 978-1-915743-41-1 In a world where Russian missile…
Catastrophe as Catalyst. Preserving Tashkent’s Postwar Modernism
Tashkent Modernism XX/XXI, 2025 Chukhovich, Boris, Del Curto, Davide and Golovatyuk, Ekaterina (eds.) Zurich: Lars Müller Publishers ISBN 978-3-03778-751-9 Though…
The Embodied Energy Manifesto
Form Follows Fuel: 14 Buildings from Antiquity to the Oil Age, 2025 Urban, Florian and Calder, Barnabas; drawings and calculations…
Discovering a Vanishing Architecture
V objatí živlov. Architektúra Vysokých Tatier 1871 – 1918, 2020 Semančík, Maroš OZ Belianky, Maroš Semančík ISBN 978-80-570-2644-0 As an…
