presentazione/introduction
Fundamentals for architecture – text by Marco Casamonti

editoriale/editorial
Elements of Architecture: Delirious Venice – text by Marco Casamonti

scenari di architettura/architectural scenario
Álvaro Siza with Carlos Castanheira/Shihlien Chemical Office Building –text by Carlos Castanheira – photo by FG + SG Fotografia de Arquitectura
Alberto Campo Baeza/House of the Infinite –text by Alberto Campo Baeza – photo by Javier Callejas Sevilla
Vo Trong Nghia Architects/House for Trees – text by Vo Trong Nghia Architects – photo by Jordi Surroca
David Chipperfield Architects with TAAU / Oscar Rodríguez/Museo Jumex – text by David Chipperfield Architects – photo by Simon Menges
Archea Associati/CDD Center for Disability – text by Massimiliano Giberti – photo by Pietro Savorelli 60
MVRDV/Glass Farm – text by MRDV –photo by MVRDV, Persbureau van Eijndhoven, ScagliolaBrakke,Thomas Mayer
Fumihiko Sano studio PHENOMENON/MoyaMoya – text by studio PHENOMENON – photo by Daisuke Shimokawa/Nacása&Partners Inc
Pezo von Ellrichshausen/Solo House – text by Pezo von Ellrichshausen – photo by Cristobal Palma
Andreas Fuhrimann Gabrielle Hächler Architekten/Finish Tower Rotsee – text by Andreas Fuhrimann Gabrielle Hächler Architekten – photo by Valentin Jeck
C+S/Chiarano Primary School – text by C+S – photo by Alessandra Bello, Pietro Savorelli
Lussi+Halter Partner/Twin Houses Kastanienbaum – text by Lussi+Halter Partner – photo by Leonardo Finotti
spbr arquitetos/House in Ubatuba – text by spbr arquitetos – photo by Nelson Kon
Inês Lobo Arquitectos/Row Houses – Bom Sucesso Design Resort – text by Inês Lobo Arquitectos – photo by Leonardo Finotti
Adept/Dalarna University Library – text by Adept – photo by Wilhelm Rejnus & Linus Flodin, Kåre Viemose
Radionica arhitekture/Museum of Vucedule Culture – text by Radionica arhitekture
Architecture Project/Barrakka Lift – text by Architecture Project  – photo by Luis Rodriguez Lopez

bibliografia/bibliography
elements bibliofraphy – edited by Aldo De Poli

itinerario contemporaneo/contemporary itinerary
Lisbon – in collaboration with ProViaggiArchitettura – edited by João Alves

esiti concorsi/competitions

recensioni mostre e libri/exhibition and book reviews

new media


Focus Bathroom

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essay Alfonso Morone Paolo Giardiello interview Roberto Lazzeroni, Andrea Lupi zoom Duravit per uno spazio di grandi contrasti! object Tavola, Tavoletta, Andrea Crosetta/Antrax Texture Collection, Meneghello Paolelli Associati/Fima Carlo Frattini…

Mediterranean: ceramics in architecture between crafts and production

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In the early Fifties Paolo Soleri, Agli inizi degli anni Cinquanta Paolo Soleri, After transforming a small bus into his first travelling home-studio, he began a journey across the peninsula,…

A shared intimacy

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The bathroom is a place in an architectural interior strongly conditioned by its use, which requires a high performance and specific devices. It is a matter of a function which…

ILBagno, a bourgeois collection from the idea to the product: Roberto Lazzeroni and Andrea Lupi

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ILBagno is the latest collection by antoniolupi. An interview to Roberto Lazzeroni, the collection’sdesigner and Andrea Lupi.

Fundamentals for Architecture

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Marco Casamonti introduces area 136: “Elements”.

Elements of Architecture: Delirious Venice

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A critical reading of the hypothesis proposed by Rem Koolhaas in the exhibition “Elements of Architecture”, analyzed through the fundamentals of architecture.

Shihlen Office Building

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Alvaro Siza and Carlos Castanheira together for the realistion of Shihlen Office Building a Huai’an City.

The House of the Infinite

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Alberto Campo Baeza designs an infinite horizontal plane on the seaside of Cadiz.

House for Tree

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House for Trees is a prototypical house with th aim of having green space into the city, accommodating high-density dwelling with big tropical trees

Museo Jumex

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A museum designed by David Chipperfield Architects to showcase the largest private art collection in Latin America.

CDD – Center for Disability

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The design of the Center for Disability in Seregno, realized by Archea Associati, is inspired by a gestural approach to architectural materials, which makes it possible to meet the functional…

Glass Farm

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Schijndel‘s market square suffered damages during the Second World War and today gains new life through MVRDV project.

MoyaMoya

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The most significant characteristic of this construction by studio Phenomenon is the stainless steel fence which surrounds the building.

Solo House

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A bare horizontal volume detached from the ground, suspended in an almost archaic time.

Finish Tower Rotsee

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A new finish tower for rowing regattas in Rotsee Lake, where the opening of the rowing center is scheduled for july 2016.

Chiarano Primary School

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Chiarano Primary School is a porous building. It allows the territory and the light to flow inside the spaces.

Twin Houses Kastanienbaum

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A semi-detached house located in a woodland, not far from the city of Lucerne and on the shores of Lake Lucerne.

House in Ubatuba

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A house with an amazing terrace on top, at same level of the street. A bridge connects the street to the main entrance of the house.

Row Houses – Bom Sucesso Design Resort

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This project by Ines Lobo involves the building of a block of 18 premises for habitation purposes next to the Óbidos Lake in the future site of the Golf and…

Dalarna University Library

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The building is laid out as an approximately 3,000 sqm ’spiral of knowledge’ that naturally integrates into the surrounding landscape at the University Campus in Falun.

Museum of Vucedol Culture

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The basic idea behind the concept of this museum is integration into the terrain, which is achieved with the museum design which is mostly buried in the ground and only…

Barrakka Lift

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A high panoramic lift is located on the edge of Malta’s historic fortified capital city of Valletta.

Ampliamento dell‘Università di Eskilstuna, Svezia

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The aim of the competition is to provide suggestions for the design of a new building within Kv Verkmästaren 6 and 7 and to integrate the old bath house in…

Nuovo Centro Arvo Pärt, Laulasmaa, Estonia

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Arvo Pärt, the famous Estonian composer internationally appreciated and respected, founded in 2010 the Arvo Pärt Centre with the goal of preserving and studying his creative legacy. The new building will…

Contemporary itinerary: Lisbon

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Lisbon has always presented an interesting contribution to contemporary architecture, in continuous renewal. The itinerary is an update to the one published on area 71.

New interpretations for the centenary of Lina Bo Bardi

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The hundredth anniversary of the birth of Lina Bo Bardi, architect and designer, is celebrated this year in Italy, Brazil and in other countries. Born in Rome on 5 December…

Common goods. Towards a participatory notion of landscape

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The notion of landscape is changing, and becoming richer; from place of relation and movement (Mouvance), to emblematic connotation of new dynamics that are nourished by change (Mutation), to place…