“This publication not only presents current insights on urban heritage management, but it brings these views together in an integrated manner” observes Robert Quarles, Secretary General of OWHC. “This report is a very welcome and timely inventory which helps to identify the interconnectedness of current urban development challenges in World Heritage cities, such as over-tourism, non-compliance in construction, unsustainable use of resources, population pressure, infrastructure and traffic pressure, pollution and a shortage of (affordable) housing”. The study highlights the importance of the involvement of citizens and community groups in urban planning cooperation, intercity cooperation and the development and financing of…

Book review by Matthew Allen It is an odd book that begins by suggesting that we read another book, but there it is, in the fourth sentence: Georges Teyssot exhorting us to buy the recent translation of Gilbert Simondon’s early masterwork, On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects, originally published in French in 1958 (viii). Here we find in miniature the conundrum at the heart of what has been called “digital architecture” for the past thirty years: computational techniques have proliferated even as their original philosophical raison d’être has languished. As Mario Carpo argued in The Alphabet and the…

“The volume, published for Electaarchitecture, illustrates and documents the ‘micro-history’ of Casa Zentner in Zurich, the only building built by Carlo Scarpa outside Italy. Casa Zentner was conceived and built between 1963 and 1969 for Savina and René Zentner. Savina Rizzi, architecture superintendent and art collector, is among the most assiduous patrons of Carlo Scarpa since the 1950s. After following Frank Lloyd Wright’s project for the palace on the Grand Canal in Venice at a very young age, requested by the architect Angelo Masieri, her first husband who died prematurely, Savina will entrust Scarpa with various tasks including, in 1953-1954,…

The Comité de Dirección of the TEMPORÁNEA. Revista de Historia de la Arquitectura is pleased to announce the publication of the first issue. TEMPORÁNEA. Revista de Historia de la Arquitectura builds an international forum in the field of Architecture History. Filling the existing gap of specialized publications in this matter in Spain, the journal has a marked international character, which translates both into the active participation of international experts in its bodies and the research published in it. Research in the History of Architecture is approached from any discipline, chronological period and geographic scope, and promotes the diversity and complexity of…

Book Review by Renato Anelli, published in: docomomo Journal 62 – Cure and Care (2020) ISSN 1380/3204. This book presents the history of hospital architecture. A Modernidade na Arquitetura Hospitalar [Modernity in Hospital Architecture] offers the reader a consistent introduction to the history of health facilities architecture, enabling the understanding of its transformations together with those of medicine. Two moments can be highlighted. The first one is when there was the application of the typology of horizontal pavilions apart from each other and distant from the cities to comply with the medical strategy to isolate the sick. The emergence of…