[EN] Observing the American experience from a European vantage point enables us to understand the reasons that, in a similar ‘Western’ culture, have led to a different feeling for the built heritage of the past, and to ...

[EN] In spatial, social and cultural pluralism, the questions of human intentionality and socio-spatial emergence remain central to social theory (Portugali 2000, p.142). The correlation between individual preferences, ...

[EN] In architecture, ornament has always been embroiled in controversy because, in many cases, it has been influenced by an ordinary reading of “Ornament and crime”, the well-known lecture by Adolf Loos in 1908. A deeper ...