The special issue focuses on new research perspectives on the architectural and interior design discourses of modernity. It questions the complex relationship between the process of artistic creation, the society and technology, while also considering the actors and networks implicated in the formation of the avant-garde modernism.
The special issue focuses on new research perspectives on the architectural and interior design discourses of modernity. […]
To represent their work at major programmatic exhibitions, Hans Scharoun, Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe chose single-person homes and apartments. This type of structure was conceived specifically to accommodate the lifestyle of a modern nomad […]
This paper examines the ways Mies van der Rohe has dealt with the phenomenon of mechanization of all areas of human life, that ever since the mid-twenties was becoming an increasingly controversial political issue. […]
This essay represents a pioneering attempt to conceive of Mies van der Rohe's work as a transformation of ‘archetypes’. […]
C. Flores' major work, "Arquitectura Española Contemporánea (1961)", is an important contribution to the Modern Movement in the context of the Franco regime. This paper analyzes Flores' book at the textual and at the visual level, for the first time uncovering […].