Lotus 173 (2022)

Reflecting on what remains of architecture, we take leave of the difficult period of the pandemic. Contributions range from the reconsiderations of the authors who took part in the Lockdown Architecture inquiry (Editoriale Lotus, 2020), which are followed by a debate over the role of nature and the function of technology. After recalling the precedents for today’s fears in the form of an “anamnesis,” the discourse is brought to a close by an expressionistic description of the Greco-Roman marbles of Villa Torlonia in Rome and an account of the effects of the volcanic eruption on the Canary Islands. This panorama so steeped in incidents is interspersed with the presentation of projects that seem to indicate a surmounting of the all-encompassing compositional form.

Pierluigi Nicolin

 

Jakob+MacFarlane

The Energy Plug

Saint-Denis, France, 2019 -

 

Labics

Città del Sole

Roma, 2007-16

 

Herzog & de Meuron

Power Station

San Francisco, California, 2019 -

 

nArchitects

A/D/O

Brooklyn, New York, 2017

 

Lacaton & Vassal

FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais

Dunkerque, France, 2013-15

 

Cino Zucchi Architetti

Augmented Architecture

Università Statale di Milano, 2021

 

Counterspace

Serpentine Pavilion 2021

London, 2021

 

Italo Rota

Palazzo dei Musei

Reggio Emilia, Italia, 2012-14, 2018-21

 

Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo

Casa Scuola

Mazzarrone (CT), Italia, 2015-18

 

1950 Rifugi antiatomici / Fallout Shelters

1967 Superpetroliere / Supertankers

1973 Austerità / Austerity

1989 Caduta del muro di Berlino / Fall of the Berlin Wall

2001 World Trade Center

1981 AIDS, 2002, 2012 Crisi virali / Viral Crises

2008 Crisi finanziaria / Financial Crisis

2020-21 Crisi ambientali / Environmental Crises

2020-22 Crisi Covid-19 / Covid-19 Crisis

 

Jean-Christophe Bailly

Eric Bunge, nArchitects

Cynthia Davidson

Giancarlo Mazzanti

Silvano Petrosino

Mirko Zardini

 

Giorgio Agamben

Distanziamento sociale / Social Distancing

 

Maurizio Ferraris

Non arrendersi / Don’t Give In

 

Giorgio Parisi

Non si tratta di salvare il pianeta ma di salvare noi stessi /

It’s not a question of saving the planet but of saving ourselves

 

I Marmi Torlonia. Collezionare

Capolavori / The Torlonia Marbles.

Collecting Masterpieces.

Roma, Villa Caffarelli, 2020-21

 

David Chipperfield

I Marmi Torlonia in scena / Restaging

the Torlonia Marbles

 

Isole Canarie / Canary Islands