Tag: architecture

Towards a New Monumentality: The Creation of an Urban Cultural Landscape

Issue: 2016, Volume 50, No. 1 - 2

The Lisbon headquarters and park of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (FCG), located in the Parque de Santa Gertrudes, created the public image of the Gulbenkian Foundation: an expression of culture that became synonymous in Portugal with social progress and thus a sign of a new monumentality. This aspiration was defined at the outset by its […]

When Architecture Is Transcendence: Vital Poetry and Social Intervention

Issue: 2019, Volume 53, No. 1 - 2

Lina Bo Bardi (1914 – 1992) was a woman architect working in a man’s world. Italian by birth and training, Lina produced her work in Brazil, the place where, in 1946, she chose to live in exile. Lina’s way of thinking kept evolving, being permeable to the Brazilian miscegenation between African, Indian and European cultures, […]

The Interpretation of Architecture as a Methodological Problem

Issue: 2020, Volume 54, No. 3 - 4

In this essay we hope to address a few methodological issues in interpreting a work of architecture that have gradually shown themselves to be problematic and at the same time productive. If we accept interpretation as one possible approach to an architectural work, then the fundamental issue of interpretation becomes the question of the sense […]

Sarajevo Memories – the City of Sublime Disorder

Issue: 2020, Volume 54, No. 3 - 4

The development of cities as well as collective memory is not a linear process, but one strongly related to the ever-changing dynamics of time and space. The manner in which urban tissue evolves through anticipated events, or is disrupted by unforeseen, often chaotic happenings, comes together in a myriad of networks that generate different levels […]