Editorial VLC#12.2

Abstract:

The articles in this issue explore wise architectural approaches, demonstrating their enduring relevance in today's panorama. Thus, a reinterpretation of Walden 7 speaks to matters that persist, such as new models of cohabitation or the opportunity for spatial modulation. Built in the 1960s, a series of housing cooperatives in Uruguay invite us to reflect on intermediate spaces, not as functional waste, but as social infrastructure that sustains community life. With Mario Ridolfi, and his Ivrea Nursery School, we learn how to design for children using an open spatial system and remembering that the presence of nature is fundamental to childhood development. Two articles focus on architectural ideation, idea-seeds and the Headmaster's House archetype in Allison and Peter Smithson, and the diagram in the architectural ideation of Eisenman, Tschumi, OMA, and SANAA. Taking Anne Tyng, the first woman architect to enrol at Harvard, as the culmination of a process, we review the enduring relevance of demands for equality between men and women. And finally, we address the typological transformation of the Teatro de los Caños del Real in Madrid, which was converted into a ballroom by Ventura Rodríguez. In a way, all the articles in VLC#12.2 +Findings in Urbanism invite us to revisit and bring to the present memorable architectural works that help us wisely interpret the current architectural context, just as the recent floods in Valencia and the memory of those who are no longer with us remain vivid in our minds. In memoriam.

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