Deconstructivism – an architecture of fragmentation
Many buildings of the last two decades of the 20th century seemed to make their effect by means of fragmentation—they were structures that seemed...
African and Oceanic Art, Picasso and Le Corbusier
In 1906, various Parisian artists individually claimed to have “discovered” important artistic attributes in African sculptural artifacts. Who made this discovery and how it...
Alternative architecture
The search for sustainability takes people on long journeys. For some, the only way to live is to build outside the normal constraints of...
An architecture for ordinary people? Modernism
Richard Rogers mentioned in a lecture in 1979 that the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris—the Beaubourg, which had just been completed—is erroneously considered to...
Architecture Before the architects: Building S. Theodore’s Chapel of S. Mark’s...
The Chapel of San Teodoro, together with the new sacristy, was constructed immediately behind San Marco from 1486 to 1493, hemmed in by a...
From old to new: the transformation of the Castle of...
Articulated with the neighbouring villages of ourém and Pombal, Porto de Mós played a strategic role in the defence of the important cities of...
Architecture and Utopia. The forbidden City
Since Thomas More used the word “utopia” to name the imaginary commonwealth that he devised somewhere in the middle of the sixteenth century, this...
Architecture and mathematics. The Alhambra
“As we walk into the Alhambra, I’m immediately struck by the reflective power of the water. It seems as though the palace is built...
Fortified Palaces in Early Modern Sicily: Models, Image Strategy, Functions
In early modern sicily the extra-urban fortified residence was a limited but important architectural phenomenon. starting from the last decades of the fifteenth century,...
Architecture takes control. Inventing Interior Space
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, panoramas were particularly popular in large European cities. Panoramas were specially built circular halls, which received their...
