Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge: Vol. 3, No. 5/2023: Collaborations: Rethinking Architectural Design

Elettra Carnelli · Federico Marcolini · Fabio Marino · Rafael Sousa Santos

Dec 2023 · transcript Verlag

About this ebook

»Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge« is an academic journal in, on, and from the discipline of architecture, addressing the creation, constitution, and transmission of architectural knowledge. It explores methods genuine to the discipline and architectural modes of interdisciplinary methodological adaptions. Processes, procedures, and results of knowledge creation and practice are esteemed coequally, with particular attention to the architectural design and epistemologies of aesthetic practice and research.

»Collaborations: Rethinking Architectural Design«, Issue 05/2023, edited by Elettra Carnelli, Federico Marcolini, Fabio Marino, and Rafael Sousa Santos, explores the impact of collaboration on architectural design processes, considering the conditions and implications of their integration into practice and discourse. The issue includes contributions and visual essays as reports from teaching activities, realized or planned architectural projects, theoretical reflections on the topic, and the critical depiction of case studies, all of which concur to the definition of new roles and modes of practice, addressing the significance of collaborations in architectural design.

About the author

Federico Marcolini was born in Italy in 1985. He completed his master's studies at IUAV in Venice (M.Arch.) and is an architect and PhD Student in Architecture and Urban Design at Politecnico di Milano, Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineer. Since 2016, he has been a teaching assistant for Design Studio courses at Politecnico di Milano - Polo Territoriale di Mantova, working with international architects such as Eduardo Souto de Moura and Carrilho da Graça. His research topics include architectureal design in historical context and he specialises in regeneration project of abandoned infrastructures such as railways. He has also contributed to the publication: Ignazio Gardella other architecture as a result of a research project in collaboration with the Parma CSAC archive, the University of Parma and Politecnico di Milano, focusing on the work of the Italian master Ignazio Gardella. In 2020, he taught the course »Ideal City Theory« at the Hochschule in Kaiserslautern.