Born in Rome. Currently he is a professor in the history of urban design at the ETH Zürich and has his own architecture practice in Milan (Studio di Architettura) as well as another one in Zurich (BaukontorArchitekten) with two associate partners. He has been an editor or member of the editorial committee of several architecture periodicals, such as Casabella, Domus, Lotus and The Harvard Design Magazine. He has published widely. His most important publications include Architecture of the 20th Century in Drawings (1982); Architecture and City Planning in the 20th Century (1985); Museums for a New Millenium. Concepts, Projects, Buildings (1999) and Novartis Campus.A Contemporary Work Environment. Premises, Elements, Perspectives (2009).
issues 1–108 are available in PDF format
Call for Abstracts OASE #115 about “Interferences: Migrating Practices in Europe”, written by Justin Agyin, Kornelia Dimitrova,
Christoph Grafe and Bernard Colenbrander. Deadline is June 19, 2022. Read the full text of the OASE #115 Call for Abstracts in the PDF.
Museums stage public encounters between visitors, objects and
stories. This is not limited to a tour through the exhibition spaces, it
starts already with monumental or ‘tresholdless’ entrances.
This issue of OASE makes a critical analysis of how soil connects to
urban planning and urban design, and how it can adjust those practices
in exploring new agendas.
Read all about the presentation in the pdf file.
A different understanding of Modernity
> From a linear to a cyclical model for architectural history> What is good, not so good or bad architecture?
> Analysis of the force field of architectural appreciation and depreciation