Abstract
In February 2018, Ana Tostões interviewed David Brownlee, pioneer researcher on Louis I. Kahn and an historian of modern architecture and professor of the history of art at the University of Pennsylvania, in order to debate Kahn’s realm of ideas and their contemporary significance. David Brownlee was guest curator of the exhibition Louis I. Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1992), and is co-author of the homonymous book (with David G. De Long, New York, 1991, translated into four other languages) that stands as the first worldwide comprehensive publication on Louis I. Kahn.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Louis Kahn, Modern monumentality, Conservation of modern architecture, Documentation of modern architecture, Symbolism and architecture.

Issue 58
Year 2018
Pages 60-62
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/58.A.2RYKCQPI

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On the 27th August 2019, at his Amsterdam office, DJ (Ana Tostões, editor, and Michel Melenhorst, guest editor) interviewed Wiel Arets, an internationally renowned architect, and the founder of Wiel Arets Architects (1983). He has since taught at several universities worldwide, having also been Dean of the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam (1995–2001) and Dean of the College of Architecture (CoA) at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago (2012–2017).

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Architectural education, Reuse, Bauhaus, Wiel Arets, Fritz Peutz.

Issue 61
Year 2019
Pages 81-87
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/61.A.3FK4MQDN

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On the 4th March 2019, at his Berlin Office, DJ (Ana Tostões, editor, and Michel Melenhorst, guest editor) interviewed David Chipperfield, an internationally renowned architect, founder of David Chipperfield Architects (1985) whose work is recognized with important awards such as the RIBA Stirling Prize, the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (Mies van der Rohe Award) and the Deutscher Architekturpreis.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Architectural education, Reuse, Bauhaus, David Chipperfield, Mies van der Rohe.

Issue 61
Year 2019
Pages 76-80
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/61.A.XWQH23QL

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