area 136 elements

essay Alfonso Morone Paolo Giardiello interview Roberto Lazzeroni, Andrea Lupi zoom Duravit per uno spazio di grandi contrasti! object Tavola, Tavoletta, Andrea Crosetta/Antrax Texture Collection, Meneghello Paolelli Associati/Fima Carlo Frattini…

In the early Fifties Paolo Soleri, Agli inizi degli anni Cinquanta Paolo Soleri, After transforming a small bus into his first travelling home-studio, he began a journey across the peninsula,…

The bathroom is a place in an architectural interior strongly conditioned by its use, which requires a high performance and specific devices. It is a matter of a function which…

ILBagno is the latest collection by antoniolupi. An interview to Roberto Lazzeroni, the collection’sdesigner and Andrea Lupi.

Marco Casamonti introduces area 136: “Elements”.

A critical reading of the hypothesis proposed by Rem Koolhaas in the exhibition “Elements of Architecture”, analyzed through the fundamentals of architecture.

Alvaro Siza and Carlos Castanheira together for the realistion of Shihlen Office Building a Huai’an City.

Alberto Campo Baeza designs an infinite horizontal plane on the seaside of Cadiz.

House for Trees is a prototypical house with th aim of having green space into the city, accommodating high-density dwelling with big tropical trees

A museum designed by David Chipperfield Architects to showcase the largest private art collection in Latin America.

The design of the Center for Disability in Seregno, realized by Archea Associati, is inspired by a gestural approach to architectural materials, which makes it possible to meet the functional…

Schijndel‘s market square suffered damages during the Second World War and today gains new life through MVRDV project.

The most significant characteristic of this construction by studio Phenomenon is the stainless steel fence which surrounds the building.

A bare horizontal volume detached from the ground, suspended in an almost archaic time.

A new finish tower for rowing regattas in Rotsee Lake, where the opening of the rowing center is scheduled for july 2016.

Chiarano Primary School is a porous building. It allows the territory and the light to flow inside the spaces.

A semi-detached house located in a woodland, not far from the city of Lucerne and on the shores of Lake Lucerne.

A house with an amazing terrace on top, at same level of the street. A bridge connects the street to the main entrance of the house.

This project by Ines Lobo involves the building of a block of 18 premises for habitation purposes next to the Óbidos Lake in the future site of the Golf and…

The building is laid out as an approximately 3,000 sqm ’spiral of knowledge’ that naturally integrates into the surrounding landscape at the University Campus in Falun.

The basic idea behind the concept of this museum is integration into the terrain, which is achieved with the museum design which is mostly buried in the ground and only…

A high panoramic lift is located on the edge of Malta’s historic fortified capital city of Valletta.

The aim of the competition is to provide suggestions for the design of a new building within Kv Verkmästaren 6 and 7 and to integrate the old bath house in…

Arvo Pärt, the famous Estonian composer internationally appreciated and respected, founded in 2010 the Arvo Pärt Centre with the goal of preserving and studying his creative legacy. The new building will…

Lisbon has always presented an interesting contribution to contemporary architecture, in continuous renewal. The itinerary is an update to the one published on area 71.

The hundredth anniversary of the birth of Lina Bo Bardi, architect and designer, is celebrated this year in Italy, Brazil and in other countries. Born in Rome on 5 December…

The notion of landscape is changing, and becoming richer; from place of relation and movement (Mouvance), to emblematic connotation of new dynamics that are nourished by change (Mutation), to place…