Architect: Virgilio Marchi

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

Alternative Histories: Bardakhanova Champkins on Virgilio Marchi

Alternative Histories: Bardakhanova Champkins on Virgilio Marchi

Had the Zuev Worker’s Club competition (Moscow, 1926) been won by Konstantine Melnikov, and not resulted in the well-known building by Ilya Golosov, perhaps a different strand of rationalism would have emerged in pre-war Italy. This could have extended the earlier speculations of Futurists such as Virgilio Marchi; Terragni’s NovoComum… Read More