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Marco Casamonti introduces area 137 issue: chinese identity. A reflection on contemporary chinese architecture.

Architecture firms standardarchitecture and Zhaoyang architects have completed a visitors centre next to a river in Tibet.

A building which is a supplementary facility of living and also to meet the increasing needs of the visitors’ accommodation in Xiangshan campus.

Scenic Architecture Office designed a building in dialogue with the pre-existing trees.The building represents a connection between men and nature.

Demetrio Paparoni writes about the generation of Chinese artists who appeared on the artistic scene in China in the second half of the Eighties have found themselves face to face…

Bilbao, the main industrial city of the Basque Country, has become a symbol of urban renaissance because of its complex and courageous development, which saw the creation of outstanding architecture.

The identity of Chinese architecture: a more conscious and reasoned architecture which experiments without aspiring to the iconic exaggeration and which reflects on the value of local culture.

To extend the lifetime of a product, by reusing at least some of its parts, means to put off its decay and transformation into garbage to be disposed of, at…

The new CityLife district is an important reference for contemporary architecture of global significance and a significant architecture for Milan. The designers were asked to identify a solution consistent and…

Juhani Pallasmaa: architect and theoretician, among the most coherently modern ones without any modernistic fundamentalisms and one of the most fascinating explorers of the complexity of architecture.

What remains today about the lesson of Mies van der Rohe? Forecasting, logical thinking, search for identity between classicism and design, but also a peaceful balance between form and structure.

Caroline Klein curates a book dedicated to the contribution of Ai Weiwei to the architectural invention.

The authors coordinated by Maria Grazia Eccheli and Mina Tamborrino, open up the curtain on many forgotten events regarding the feminine world of architecture.

Carlo Ratti and his vision of as a place of interaction between individuals and information fluxes.

Three interesting exhibitions are held this autumn in Genoa, in Venice and in Milan, to examine particular aspects of Italian design.

In collaboration with the Alvar Aalto Museum, the Vitra Design Museum dedicates an important critical and retrospective exhibition to the Finnish architect.

Few months to go to Expo 2015, Milan will “put on the table” a great exhibition.

A investigation on the acceleration of culture, technical knowledge and productive organization that the presence of War always requires.

The sixth edition of the Highrise Award.