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Santiago · SantiagoCoined by Thomas More in 1516, utopia holds a telling ambiguity: it means “no place” (ou-topos) but is sufficiently close to “good place” (eu-topos). Since then, the concept has oscillated between aspiration and critique—between imagining radical alternatives and exposing society’s deepest failures. Utopian thinking underwrote modern architecture’s confidence in masterplans, technological optimism, and universalising visions of social order. […]…Read Article
ARQ 121: Utopian América
Politics · SantiagoCIVICNESS: ARCHITECTURE AND THE POLITICS OF THE PUBLIC REALM Guest editors: Anna Livia Friel & Agustina Labarca Gatica The term character in architecture has long been contested. During the 17th century, it was defined as rational manifestation of a building’s function; later, Romanticism reframed it as an expression of personal and, by extension, national identity. Civic character of buildings, however, is often easier to recognize than to defi…Read Article
Materia Arquitectura 29: CIVICNESS
Naples, Campania · NaplesThe RIVELAZIONI international conference invites contributions that engage critically with spaces of marginalization, confinement, and invisibility – places that are physically or symbolically denied within contemporary society. These may include prisons, detention centers, informal settlements, or other spaces overlooked by dominant spatial narratives. The conference seeks to bring together scholars, designers, and practitioners from multiple d…Read Article
