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Black Cowboys, Banlieues, and Beyond: Twenty Years of Mohamed Bourouissa
From Paris suburbs to Philadelphia stables, Mohamed Bourouissa interrogates the politics of representation and community in urban peripheries across twenty years of projects
Built to Endure: Capri’s Hidden Hotel and Its Organic Architecture
Neither a landmark nor a brand, Punta Tragara resists uniformity and green storytelling alike – favoring instead an architecture of adaptation, built to endure quietly in the folds of Capri
Pietro Ruffo’s Celestial Rome: Re-mapping the Eternal City Through an Urban Sanctuary
From the hand-engraved zodiac constellations in the lobby to the twenty-metre expanse of azulejos on the roof, Pietro Ruffo transforms art’otel Rome Piazza Sallustio into a narrative that weaves together...
Cross Cultural Chairs: The Chair as a Form of Identity and Belonging in the World
Matteo Guarnaccia’s project challenges the global standardization of chair design: postures, materials, and practices shared between artisans, designers, and local communities
Nemika, Tokyo. Japanese philosophy and the cycle of life in garden-themed experience
It derives its name from the three elements of the Nemika world – root ‘ne’, fruit ‘mi’, and flower ‘ka’. Together, the three words allude to the materiality of soil and earth interpreted...
Why Rome’s Palazzine Matter to Global Architectural History
The palazzina took shape within the milieu of a prosperous upper-middle class: the architects and key figures who reshaped the Eternal City between the 1930s and the 1980s
Casa Cavia, Buenos Aires, under the creative direction of Guadalupe García Mosqueda
A restaurant, cocktail bar, Ampersandpublishing house, bookstore, and flower shop housed in a rationalist villa belonging to Argentina’ s heritage – under the creative direction of Guadalupe García Mosqueda
At the Biennale, it’s all sweat: a trillion trees—nothing else will save us
Introduction to Carlo Ratti’s Architecture Biennale: the lone subject is sustainability—a “mind-boggling” number of trees, humanity on its knees, sweat, heat, and a bacterial population boom
