Ion Popusoi and Bogdan Preda, Romania The distorted urbanization and traffic problems that Bucharest is facing are so deep, that sincerely, I don’t know how should architects alone could respond to
Pavlos Chatziangelidis, 314 Architecture Studio, Greece Today, we are experiencing a unprecedented situation worldwide. Architecture should drastically react to prevent similar scenarios in the future. Architecture formed our life during quarantine
Nenad Fabijanić, Arhitektonski studio Fabijanić, Croatia The latest one has been brought around by the earthquake in Zagreb earlier this year. We are doing our part by working on reconstruction and adaptation
Andrea Botter and Emanuele Bressan, Studio Botter + Studio Bressan, Italy The obligation to stay closed indoors for long periods has brought out a greater attention of our customers towards the domestic
A Socratic shift in thinking is dramatically needed today Interview with Dževad Karahasan, Bosnian and Herzegovinian dramaturg, writer, professor and academician Dževad Karahasan is the winner of this year’s Goethe Prize
If we are losing our basic values, we only have ourselves to blame; interview with Georg von Habsburg By Boštjan Tadel To what an extent do you expect
Eligo Studio, Italy Talking about interior design, we think that COVID-19 crisis give us a change to improve the quality of the interior spaces looking for better materials and smart solutions.
Zamboni Associati Architettura, Italy Covid-19 is not the problem but the evidence of the problem, or the tip of the iceberg. It brings to light even more strongly the crisis of
Nenad Fabijanić, Arhitektonski studio Fabijanić, Croatia There has been a period of working from home while quarantine was on and all our meetings were online, otherwise Covid-19 had no relevant impact on our
Paul Lobis, Italy I can only make assumptions on how Covid-19 will affect the woodworking sector. Most likely, the demand will drop within the next two years – especially concerning lower price
Andrea Botter and Emanuele Bressan, Studio Botter + Studio Bressan, Italy A big problem that afflicts our territory of triveneto, but also a big part of Italian soil, is the need
Eligo Studio, Italy The retail stores are designed as spaces are not reflected anymore the contemporary way to shop and to interact with them. EligoStudio vision in the retail business is
Tatjana Cafuk, Arhipen, Croatia Concurrently with the COVID-19 crisis, the capital of Croatia, Zagreb, and its surroundings were hit by a devastating earthquake, which caused significant damage to buildings. The Zagreb city
Tommaso Giunchi, Italy I already discuss this theme with different social platforms and magazines: I think that people, who have been forced to stay indoors for a long time, have realized
Tatjana Cafuk, Arhipen, Croatia The COVID-19 crisis will undoubtedly affect many aspects of urban planning, architecture, and design. Although we cannot accurately predict the future, every crisis brings opportunities for reflection, reimagining
Zamboni Associati Architetti, Italy Covid-19 emergency apparently leads in the diametrically opposite direction to how our cities, our communities, our activities and the use of public and private space were evolving
Y100 Atelier, Slovakia I really miss the platform for architectural competitions on the state and municipality levels. Most of the public institutions publish call for entries only on their web sites,
Novi dom, Bosnia and Herzegovina The consequences of the crisis caused by the COVID-19 virus pandemic and by the restrictive measures implemented by many governments will certainly have a major impact
LDA.iMdA Architetti associati, Italy Italian architecture has a great history both in ancient and in modern period. Luckily we have been the fortunate witnesses of the most important artistic phenomena in
Giuseppe Gurrieri; Giuseppe Gurrieri Studio, Italy In recent decades, in Italy, in order to meet the growing demand for housing, policies to protect the natural and historicized territory have disappeared in
Georgios Makridis; do:gma, Cyprus Problem Identification: Under-Appreciation of Design This is a rather general problem, that becomes specific for Cyprus in a slightly different way. The country is currently into the frenzy
Chrystala Psathiti; Splace-architecture, Cyprus Problem: New firms basically rely mainly on their intuition or the general culture provided by Instagram and Pinterest for the design of various architectural proposals. Solution: I think
Burnazzi Feltrin Architetti, Italy As for identifying a problem/solution in our country's architectural profession, I was thinking about how to reuse/regenerate urban spaces previously abandoned or disused. In my opinion a very
Lorenzateliers; Peter Lorenz Every crisis is a chance. Big crisis like covid 19 represent big chances. Optimistically it might be possible that our visions for the urban future will no longer
Raluca Visinescu; Bloc, Romania For the last 18 months, as a member of the board of Romanian Order of Architects, Bucharest Branch, I've been in charge of tackling the problem of the
The optimistic view of the Covid-19 pandemics is that it provides a chance for a global reset, usually in a sense of initiating a process of levelling inequality all across the globe and within countries, classes and sexes. More →
We are nowhere near a point when anyone could predict what comes A. C. (“after Corona”, as the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has called it), but we can assume that we are entering turbulent times. More →
Jora Kasapi, Albania "The urban fabric of Tirana has been shaped by a continuous process of tabula rasa, continuing even more intensively today, through the devaluation of the past to replace
Christos Pavlou, Cyprus "Our biggest concern as architects in Cyprus is the level of architecture awareness which is at the moment largely absent. It seems as though that architecture exists only
Giuseppe Gurrieri; Giuseppe Gurrieri Studio, Italy After Covid 19 and after the ensuing global economic crisis I don’t think we will going back like “before” because a real crisis never leaves
