VLC arquitectura. Research Journal

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VLC arquitectura is an international research journal, covering architecture with an interdisciplinary approach. It is meant to be a forum for discussion on the architectural and urban project, ranging from its technical, energetic and material dimensions, to its theoretical, historical and graphic perspective. Research on architectural education is also welcome.

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Vol. 12 No. 2 (2025)

Published: 2025-10-31

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Editorial
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Editorial VLC#12.2

Juan Serra Lluch
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Editorial
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Editorial Findings in Urbanism

Ana Portalés Mañanós
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Research articles
9-31

Revisiting Walden 7. Solutions for the contemporary housing cell

Raquel Álvarez Arce, María Soledad Bustamante, Marta Alonso Rodríguez
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Taller de Arquitectura. Architectural calligrams of various floor plan layouts from the Moratalaz project (1970).
Research articles
33-62

In-between space and the architecture of encounter in cooperative housing in Uruguay

Maria Eugenia Puppo, Nieves Fernández-Villalobos
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VICMAN complex, Alfredo Nebel Farini and Eladio Dieste, Montevideo, 1964-1973. (Diagrams by the authors. SMA-31920 – Archivo del Servicio de Medios Audiovisuales, FADU, Udelar. SMA-41406, SMA-41407 – Carlos Pazos, Archivo del Servicio de Medios Audiovisuales, FADU, Udelar)
Research articles
63-86

Mario Ridolfi, Ivrea nursery school. Nature, contingency, and process

Eusebio Alonso-García, Boris Aparicio-Tejido
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Ridolfi. Ivrea Nursery School, Canton Vesco. View of the central space from the roof of the north classroom. Perimeter tour of this space and passage under one of its bridges. https://www.fondoridolfi.org
Research articles
87-108

Idea-Seeds and the Headmaster’s House archetype in A&P Smithson

Marta Pérez Rodríguez, José Manuel Barrera Puigdollers, Alberto Rubio Garrido
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Cordell Studio House proposal. Drawing by P. Smithson. ©Smithson Family Collection.
Research articles
109-131

The diagram in the architectural ideation of Eisenman, Tschumi, OMA and SANAA

Virginia De Jorge Huertas, Javier De Esteban Garbayo
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Aronoff Center, 1988-96. Diagrama de Eisenman
Research articles
133-152

Women’s access to architectural education in the United States: Tyng as a symbol of a historical process

Marta Martínez-Vera, Antonio Álvaro-Tordesillas
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Kahn and Tyng with architect Kenneth Welch, whom Tyng had met while in Rome, at the Twentieth and Walnut Streets office, 1955. (Tyng, Louis Kahn to Anne Tyng: The Rome Letters, 1953-1954. New York: Rizzoli, 1997, pp. 191)
Research articles
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From Theatre to Amphitheatre: Ventura Rodríguez in Madrid’s Caños del Peral

Ángel Martínez Díaz, Carlos Villarreal Colunga
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Baile en máscara. Luis Paret y Alcázar, 1767. ©Museo Nacional del Prado, P002875
Findings in...
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Green and blue infrastructure as a tool for health promotion

Ana Zazo Moratalla, Cristina del Pozo , María Teresa Baquero Larriva, Carola Díaz de Lope-Díaz, Ester Higueras García, Silvia Ribot Gil, Mireia Faus Bosh, Hugo Canahua
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Methodological diagram. The Authors’ own work 2025
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215-232

Street networks and the description, explanation and prescription of urban landscapes

Mazyar Abaee, Vítor Oliveira
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Brezin Map of Tehran, 1827 (Public Domain)
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233-246

Urban resilience: between tradition, crisis response, and global change

Christa Reicher, Javier Ostos Prieto, Fabio Bayro Kaiser
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The UNESCO World Heritage Site Zollverein in Essen (Fabio Bayro Kaiser, 2020).
Findings in...
247-259

People’s Plans: Co-production and participatory action research in social housing

Pablo Sendra-Fernández
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Left to right: William Dunbar and William Saville housing, Community Plan, Alton Estate People’s Plan, and Trellick and Edenham Community Plan.
Findings in...
261-276

Gender in UN-Habitat Policies and Programs. Past and Present, 1978-2025

Inés Sánchez de Madariaga, Teresa Boccia
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General view of the opening session of the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing 1995 (© UN Photo//Milton Grant).
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The Palais des Machines of 1889. Historical-structural Reflections

Javier Estévez Cimadevila, Isaac López César
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Findings in...
131-152

“A sum of possibles.” Eileen Gray and the overcoming of Modernist design

Alberto Ruiz Colmenar, Beatriz S. González Jiménez
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Findings in...
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The Wall Unit System designed by Konrad Wachsmann. Mobility of Elements

Martino Peña Fernández-Serrano
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Findings in...
83-99

Enclosed by images. Insights, relationships, and information

Eusebio Alonso-García, Iván Rincón-Borrego, Sara Pérez-Barreiro
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  • 3861 downloads
Findings in...
225-255

Architectural drawing. Language of thought and construction. Past, present and future

Javier Fco. Raposo Grau, Miguel Paredes Maldonado
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  • 795 downloads
Findings in...
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Donald Judd vs. Peter Zumthor. The unbuilt pavilion of the Kunsthaus Bregenz

Pablo Llamazares Blanco
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  • 480 downloads