Architecture

Is today’s architecture still stuck in the past, with its reliance on oil-based products from an earlier industrial age? Alessandro Bava says yes, but he’s also been paying attention to recent developments in ecologically sustainable building materials. Why haven’t architects shifted their focus to innovations in the sciences and put this research to good use?

Artchitecture

What are the exhibition spaces of the future? Hybrid museum buildings, domestic spaces that defy our transparent, commercialised world, or the urban fabric itself? Alessandro Bava on the rediscovered relevance of architecture and the deisre for real experience.