470 – Italian review. Eclecticism through continuity

november-december 2019
The 13 projects selected for this issue represent a multiplicity of themes, lines of research and languages that remain vital to italian contemporary architecture. The private single – and two-family home is one of these themes, as demonstrated by three examples presented. Another theme is the transformation of the existing through interventions of reconfiguration, reuse and expansion, that constitutes one of the principal challenges for architects. A challenge that implies new interpretations and processes of rewriting.

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469 – Architecture as territorial archaeology

september-october 2019
The issue presents a selection of works by architects from the Portuguese, Spanish and Mexican schools, whose research is rooted precisely in the ideative phase, intended as the exploration of strong ties between architecture and the urban and environmental landscape. Mono-materiality, solidity, composition by parts, relations between interior-exterior, value assigned to the theme of natural light and connections with the surrounding natural or artificial environment are just some of the characteristics shared by these projects.

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468 – Concrete. Experiments and new languages

july-august 2019
Concrete is one of the most widely utilised architectural and building materials and focus of some of the most important experiments in building technologies. The advancement of concrete manufacturing, in terms of environmental sustainability and recycling and in relation to new forms, has led to the beginnings of a season of new expressions, represented by the projects in this issue.

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467 – Public space and urban regeneration

may-june 2019
In today’s urban landscapes, wider and increasingly more multifunctional, subject to incessant processes of densification and reconversion, public space, as it was in the historic city, is once again playing a decisive role in defining the level of quality of life, a crucial factor for economic development and social and environmental balances for today’s societies.

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466 – Themes and forms of collective living

march-april 2019
Co-housing – the subject of this issue – is one of the many responses being provided by a more general search for new residential models. Responses triggered by the transformation of lifestyles and social and cultural changes taking place, that are largely ignored by current architectural production. These changes are leading toward the development of an alternative model of dwelling: a hybrid between the traditional home and communal dwellings, known as co-housing.

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465 – Not only density: architecture in South Korea

january-february 2019
The works presented are characterized by the sobriety typical of the best examples of Asian architecture and, at the same time, possess the ability to absorb the complexity, contradictions and changes occurring in the contemporary Korean city and society. The projects are the result of a way of designing that successfully interprets a fundamental element of the urban morphology of Asian cities: density

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