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Giuliano Fiorenzoli: Because of Seeing Architecture (2023) – Review
08.02.2024
Giuliano Fiorenzoli: Because of Seeing Architecture (2023) – Review08.02.2024
In 1977, two years into the city’s fiscal crisis, I moved to New York City—a young architecture student, ready to take in everything the metropolis had to offer. What I found was a city scarred by garbage strikes, the blackout, and a serial killer calling himself the Son of Sam.… Read More
The Religious Architecture of Alvar, Aino and Elissa Aalto (2023) — Review
26.01.2024
The Religious Architecture of Alvar, Aino and Elissa Aalto (2023) — Review26.01.2024
There is an ongoing debate within the field of theology and the arts concerning to what degree ‘theology’ must guide the discussion. Those on one side of the divide argue that unless the terms are clearly staked out within traditional discourses and literature in theology, we do not know what… Read More
Painting in Stone (2020) – Review
01.03.2022
Painting in Stone (2020) – Review01.03.2022
‘Matter endures, form is lost.’ —Pierre de Ronsard [1] Fabio Barry’s recent book, Painting in Stone: Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment, opens with an unlikely frontispiece. Rather than a photograph of a historical case, as suggested by the title, Barry presents a contemporary artwork… Read More