Publisher's Synopsis
First volume of a journey into international architecture, in order to interrogate the experimentations and the forms of the project that intertwine innovation, compositional, and building technique needs. An itinerary into the multipolar identity of architecture all over the world, which is confronted with the layered reality of cities and landscape, to understand and decode ideas and architectures built, through contributions from international designers, in a path that originates from the online sections "International Architecture," "Architecture of the Month," and "Wood in Architecture" of the website (www.theplan.it). Urban and landscape residences, public service buildings, architecture for culture, buildings, offices, places of administrative activity, public residential complexes, urban architectural and memory routes, buildings for commercial activities: a large, significant framework that outlines concrete elements of vitality.