Architect: Barroso and Ramos

Notes on Urban Form

Notes on Urban Form

Editors and Ingrid Schroder

I believe it was in February 2024, at some noisy event, that I agreed to deliver a handful of seminars to AA and LSE students around the topic of urban form. Niall had tempted me with the provision of fifty or so drawings from the archive, but I could take… Read More

River Arno

River Arno

Ivo Poças Martins

In Florence, the flooding of the River Arno on November 4, 1966 was of a magnitude not seen in almost 500 years of history. The city, built on this alluvial plain, was flooded and the river overflowed its banks, filling areas as far away as the Piazza del Duomo with… Read More