Vernacular Heritage: A people without memory is a people without a future
Featured in a collective volume on the question of “minor heritage”.
The Composite Presence Of Public Space from the Scena Comica to Collage City: Virtual Urban Representations as Visual Disciplinary Tools
The essay traces the concept of the « composite city » as a recurring visual and disciplinary paradigm in Western architectural culture, from the theatrical scenography of the Italian Renaissance to Rowe and Koetter’s Collage City (1978).
Architecture, don’t waste it!
Written in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, Nicola Braghieri’s essay is a polemical critique of architecture’s complicity with the excesses of late capitalism. Taking as its opening image a 1917 US Food Administration poster by Frederic G. Cooper — six precepts urging the wartime population not to waste food — Braghieri draws an (…)