Once a small fishing port, then a British colony, thanks to its special status Hong Kong is now one of the most important economic and commercial centers globally. Not being able to develop in width, it developed above all ...

There are different ways of understanding the landscape that surrounds us. According to the European Landscape Convention (2000), it "designates a certain part of the territory, as perceived by the populations, whose ...

The text analyzes the urban project for Zagarolo, which in the past had been mainly considered the work of different hands, and through a particular attention to building types and fabrics, to the hierarchy of paths in ...

Before the arrival of the Europeans, the territory where the metropolis of New York now stands was inhabited by the Native Americans of the Algonquian peoples

Renzo Piano is an Italian architect today unanimously considered one of the most famous in the world. The dialectical relationship between industry and craftsmanship characterizes all his professional production.

Founded as a British penal colony in the second half of the eighteenth century, on the south-eastern coast of Australia, Sydney soon became an important hub for ocean trade routes and a lively metropolis destination for ...

Interrupted cities is an international research project that we started2020 three years ago together with Tom Rankin, Giorgio Verdiani and Paolo Pineschi. The project was titled as an evident homage to Piero Sartogo's Roma ...

In the Middle Ages a chain suspended between two towers defended the entrance of Kyrenia’s little harbour, like the chain across the Golden Horn in Constantinople. William de Oldenburg, who visited Cyprus in 1211 during ...

The so-called “beach-tower” is the smallest of the three remaining towers belonging to the Kyrenia’s medieval enceinte. Semi-circular in plan, with circa 6 m of diameter, the tower is today partially obliterated by the ...

“Ars simia natura” (Boccaccio, 1360) is a concept that has cut in two the history of the arts. Hence the modern figurative revolution the misunderstanding of this notion it has depleted architecture to a mere branch of the ...