Industria delle Costruzioni

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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464 – Italian review: views on the future

november-december 2018
This tenth edition of the Review, now a substantial repertory of works of architecture built in Italy over the course of almost two decades, is not simply another collection of projects but above all an occasion for looking beyond the present into the future of Italian architecture. This intention produced the idea of publishing five essays by the curators of the Italian Pavilion from the past ten years of the International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale.

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463 – Architectures in extreme environments

september-october 2018
Fantastical machines for environmental explorations, small refuges in breathtaking panoramas, landmarks from which to observe natural phenomena or in which to rest after a tiring hike, the architecture of this issue takes us back to the origins of Architecture and to that ideal primitive condition that required to compete with an adverse nature non to be contrasted, but with which to dialogue through adequate tools and without useless superstructures

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461 – Infrastructures and territory: new models

may-june 2018
Infrastructural networks represent one of the key challenges to the future development of contemporary societies. They are a precious tool for triggering economic dynamics and re-establishing social and environmental equilibriums in the articulated and complex structure of anthropically developed territories. This issue of the magazine offers a selection of the latest generation of waste treatment and water management facilities.

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460 – Urban mobility and spaces of crossing

march-april 2018
Public transportation, bicycle paths, footpaths and intermodal transport represent the basic components of interventions that favour more sustainable mobility. The selection of projects in this issue of the magazine brings them to the foreground and highlights the competition between different cities around the globe. In particular, the selected projects concentrate on the theme of slow mobility and a variety of routes and spaces of crossing.

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459 – Tehran: Contemporary Architectures

january-february 2018
Dedicated to contemporary architecture in Tehran, where a new generation of architects embarked on an interesting quest for renewal, this issue features a selection of recent projects in the Iranian capital. A sample of projects different both for use and language raising questions about themes such the relation between innovation and tradition, globalization and localism.

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