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Concerned with the connection between the built environment and the passage of time, ''Reframing Berlin'' uses film locations in the city to reveal the influence that urban transformation has on memory-making. Covering the city’s history since the beginning of cinema, the book proposes the term urban strategy to understand the range of consequential actions taken by(...)
Architecture and Film, Set Design
March 2023
Reframing Berlin: Architecture, Memory-Making and Film Locations
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Concerned with the connection between the built environment and the passage of time, ''Reframing Berlin'' uses film locations in the city to reveal the influence that urban transformation has on memory-making. Covering the city’s history since the beginning of cinema, the book proposes the term urban strategy to understand the range of consequential actions taken by politicians, developers, and other powerful figures to shape the nature and future of buildings, streets, and districts. Organizing these strategies from demolition to memorialization, the authors study the ways these actions forget or recall aspects of place. Using cinematic representations of Berlin as an audiovisual archive, the study details how the city has adjusted to its traumatic twentieth-century history through architectural transformations. Two dissimilar case studies frame each strategy, indicating that an approach that works for one building may not be sufficient for another.
Architecture and Film, Set Design
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« Lausanne Jardins » est un événement culturel associant architecture du paysage et réflexion sur la ville. Le temps d’un été, une série de jardins éphémères se déploie sur le territoire lausannois, dont certains restent en place bien au-delà de lamanifestation. Ainsi depuis sa première édition en 1997, et au gré des suivantes (actuellement, la 7e édition), Lausanne(...)
Urban Landscapes
January 2025
Lausanne Jardins, la ville autrement
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« Lausanne Jardins » est un événement culturel associant architecture du paysage et réflexion sur la ville. Le temps d’un été, une série de jardins éphémères se déploie sur le territoire lausannois, dont certains restent en place bien au-delà de lamanifestation. Ainsi depuis sa première édition en 1997, et au gré des suivantes (actuellement, la 7e édition), Lausanne Jardins contribue à la transformation urbanistique et paysagère de laville en ramenant le végétal au coeur de l’espace bâti tout en faisant évoluer les pratiques. Dès le début, Lausanne Jardins a posé les bases d’un concept clair qui le distingue d’un festival : un nouveau site et un thème à chaque édition. Intervenant dans l’espace public avec des installations paysagères, la manifestation s’appuye sur les enjeux du moment: nature en ville, qualité de l’espace non-bâti, nouvelles infrastrutures de mobilité, sol urbain, ville éponge, climat.
Urban Landscapes
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SHIFTS propels you into the future of Scotland's Central Belt and gives you a glimpse into the year 2057. Imagine the transformation of the M8 into a major tourist attraction running through Scotland's Central Forest. Imagine the creation of a new canal connecting the west and the east coast, wide enough to carry a floating opera house or a football stadium. Imagine(...)
Shifts projections into the future of the Central Belt
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SHIFTS propels you into the future of Scotland's Central Belt and gives you a glimpse into the year 2057. Imagine the transformation of the M8 into a major tourist attraction running through Scotland's Central Forest. Imagine the creation of a new canal connecting the west and the east coast, wide enough to carry a floating opera house or a football stadium. Imagine a decentralisation of political and economical power, producing local decision-making structures that support local identity, culture and production. Imagine Scotland relying only on hydro and wind power, beeing Europe's main export nation of green energy. Imagine the Central Belt not as a zone to move through but to move to. Imagine the life that is faster and slower at the same time, a life that is healthier, greener and more fun. Imagine that SHIFTS have happened.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
L'art d'accomoder les restes
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Que peut l'architecture à l'ère de l'Anthropocène? A-t-elle l'énergie de se saisir de l'occasion pour faire autrement et, ce faisant, de construire d'autres histoires? L'acte de transformation négocie avec l'idée de pertes. Le face-à-face de l'architecte avec celles-ci est continu et se joue en toutes phases, de la conception jusqu'à la réalisation, en passant par la mise(...)
Architecture Monographs
February 2024
L'art d'accomoder les restes
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Que peut l'architecture à l'ère de l'Anthropocène? A-t-elle l'énergie de se saisir de l'occasion pour faire autrement et, ce faisant, de construire d'autres histoires? L'acte de transformation négocie avec l'idée de pertes. Le face-à-face de l'architecte avec celles-ci est continu et se joue en toutes phases, de la conception jusqu'à la réalisation, en passant par la mise en usages. Ce qui est livré se patine, puis s'érode, dès le ruban rouge coupé; ces pertes sont irrémédiables. Le projet déplace les réalités, les fait changer de formes, amenant à concéder un certain nombre de deuils. Certains sont d'ordre individuel, d'autres sont collectifs. Cette condition de l'architecte générateur de pertes est intemporelle. Cependant, elle se conscientise de manière plus aiguë à l'ère de l'Anthropocène où l'idée de table rase est battue en brèche.
Architecture Monographs
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In this sequel to her enduring bestseller ''Hope in the Dark'', Solnit surveys a world that has changed dramatically since the year 1960. Despite the forces seeking to turn back the clock on history, change is not a possibility; it is an inevitability. The changes amount to nothing less than dismantling an old civilization and building a new one, whose newness is often(...)
The beginning comes after the end: Notes on a world of change
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In this sequel to her enduring bestseller ''Hope in the Dark'', Solnit surveys a world that has changed dramatically since the year 1960. Despite the forces seeking to turn back the clock on history, change is not a possibility; it is an inevitability. The changes amount to nothing less than dismantling an old civilization and building a new one, whose newness is often the return of the old ways and wisdoms. In this rising worldview, interconnection is a core idea and value. But because the transformation is obscured within a longer arc of history, its scale is seldom recognized. While the white nationalist and authoritarian backlash drives individualism and isolation, this new world embraces antiracism, feminism, a more expansive understanding of gender, environmental thinking, scientific breakthroughs, and Indigenous and non-Western ideas, pointing toward a more interconnected, relational world.
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Gabriele Basilico followed Aldo Rossi's work for almost twenty years, accompanying his rise to become a leading figure in international architecture (winning the Pritzker Prize in 1990). His photographs reveal their deep professional affinity: the two shared Milanese origins, degrees from the Politecnico, an interest in social issues and urban transformation, and even(...)
Photography monographs
March 2026
Gabriele Basilico fotografa Aldo Rossi
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Gabriele Basilico followed Aldo Rossi's work for almost twenty years, accompanying his rise to become a leading figure in international architecture (winning the Pritzker Prize in 1990). His photographs reveal their deep professional affinity: the two shared Milanese origins, degrees from the Politecnico, an interest in social issues and urban transformation, and even more importantly, the moral compass with which they explored the world around them. Growing up in a Milan of which the industrial civilisation was by then in its death throes, they grasped the opportunity to create a new language still mindful of tradition. The volume brings together Basilico's photographs of Rossi's architecture for the first time, and is enriched by contributions from Chiara Spangaro and Pier Paolo Tamburelli, project notes by Rossi, as well as the writings that they dedicated to each other.
Photography monographs
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''The Right to Nature'' is a new chapter of reflection and work of the AG greenscape, centered on the current and renewed relationship between man and nature, and the consequent transformation of our cities through new ways of living, inhabiting, working with nature and the landscape as the protagonist, in every area, at all project scales, as a social balancer and(...)
Urban Landscapes
May 2025
The right to nature: For a new urban landscape
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''The Right to Nature'' is a new chapter of reflection and work of the AG greenscape, centered on the current and renewed relationship between man and nature, and the consequent transformation of our cities through new ways of living, inhabiting, working with nature and the landscape as the protagonist, in every area, at all project scales, as a social balancer and activator of a new urban sociality. The relationship between man and nature today is an urgent issue in the debate on the contemporary city, but it still has to be truly explored, defined, and built. Throughout seven main topics – Green and blue infrastructures, Regeneration, Public space, Dwelling, Green welfare, Heritage, and Care –, the book explores contemporary urban landscape issues at the different scales of the project, in the light of the relationship between human beings and nature.
Urban Landscapes
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The "evolving structures" exhibition brings together four revitalizations of buildings from different historical periods and of various typologies that have fallen out of use. In dealing with the restrictions imposed by the existing buildings - as well as with the requirements of monument preservation - the aim is to develop the existing substance from within. In this(...)
kister scheithauer gross: evolving structures
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The "evolving structures" exhibition brings together four revitalizations of buildings from different historical periods and of various typologies that have fallen out of use. In dealing with the restrictions imposed by the existing buildings - as well as with the requirements of monument preservation - the aim is to develop the existing substance from within. In this way, the buildings can regain their presence, which has faded over time, and radiate new vitality into their surroundings. From each of the four projects in the exhibition, ksg has formulated a thesis on sustainable transformation that describes the specific measure to be taken on the existing structure - the architectural key that enables a new activation of the existing building. All of the projects presented are currently undergoing conversion. This makes it possible to vividly convey the processes and the attitude of kister scheithauer gross.
Architecture Monographs
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"Into Stoas" is not a guidebook. It’s a mapping of Athens's neglected passageways – paths that connect streets and offer escape from the city’s stress and noise. It is an ode to a lost city of mixed use and to its diverse vernacular signs that still survive today. A call for presence at the “Commercial Triangle” of Athens, once a labyrinth ideal for inquisitive strolls,(...)
Into Stoas: a map to walk through the Stoas of Athens
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"Into Stoas" is not a guidebook. It’s a mapping of Athens's neglected passageways – paths that connect streets and offer escape from the city’s stress and noise. It is an ode to a lost city of mixed use and to its diverse vernacular signs that still survive today. A call for presence at the “Commercial Triangle” of Athens, once a labyrinth ideal for inquisitive strolls, now undergoing blandification. An invitation to lose yourself in a city within a city, and keep these paths alive. This research project has a dual objective. To promote walking by revealing an alternative walking network in the heart of Athens and to document the images of the vernacular exit signs that constitute a part of the unarchived Greek design history. This second edition reflects on the transformation that has happened at the ''Commercial Triangle'' the last 12 years.
City Guides
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La Cité du Design de Saint-Etienne est une institution d'un nouveau genre consacrée à la recherche et la formation, la communication, la diffusion et les services liés au design. Elle s'adresse aux acteurs les plus divers et intègre des pratiques variées, artistiques, industrielles, universitaires, urbaines, sociétales. Un seul volume élancé, la Platine, s'intègre dans le(...)
Cité du design Saint-Étienne 2006 : 02, projections
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La Cité du Design de Saint-Etienne est une institution d'un nouveau genre consacrée à la recherche et la formation, la communication, la diffusion et les services liés au design. Elle s'adresse aux acteurs les plus divers et intègre des pratiques variées, artistiques, industrielles, universitaires, urbaines, sociétales. Un seul volume élancé, la Platine, s'intègre dans le site de l'ancienne Manufacture d'Armes de Saint-Etienne. Ce mono espace connecte les activités communicatives avec les programmes spécifiques qui s'inscrivent dans les bâtiments historiques de la Manufacture. Une tour observatoire est l'élément pionnier qui marque le point de départ de cette transformation. Trois livres décrivent la genèse de la Cité du Design de Saint-Etienne. «Observations» explore le lieu et montre la tour observatoire. «Projections» retrace le processus de la conception architecturale. «Constructions» présentera la Cité du Design achevée en 2008.
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