ABSTRACT: How many images and words do we consume per second? How many images and words do we dissect from the point of view of its meaning (s)? The media swiftly exhale the information, transmitting to us successive fragments of objects constructed or produced virtually. We absorb such a quantity of information that we often fail to reduce it critically to the essential and our projectual database increases in quantity but in disorder, chaotically. We have developed more and more short memories at the expense of so-called definitive memories. The process of selection and exclusion, essential (...)

ABSTRACT: El Degree in A.A.I. by the Faculty of Architecture of the Politecnico di Milano it is just 24, is already mature and fully aware of its design possibilities. We are in 1929, and since the European cultural climate and especially the Italian political climate, it is surprising that Albini is present immediately with clear plans and safe choices. His early accomplishments appear to be fully inserted in the European avant-garde world, next to the best designers of the Bauhaus, in France and the Netherlands. All this has to do much thinking, because our Faculty rarely graduate young (...)

ABSTRACT: Gio Ponti was one of the most important architect designer of the last century. Born in Milan in 1891, was art director of many important manufactories, promoter and editor of Domus, in his office-studio worked from 1933 to 1945 with Engineers Antonio Fornaroli and Eugenio Soncini, from 1945 to 1952 with Antonio Fornaroli only and from 1952 with Alberto Rosselli too until 1979. Many famous projects and buildings were made all over the world with their complete design from furniture to windows, from lamps to chairs, from handle door to ceramics tails. In this my little research, after (...)

ABSTRACT: Will it make sense to talk about Arte Nova in Portugal? And if so, how do you fit this or not in a landscape marked by revivals resulting from the search for a national style? What visions, concepts, principles or utopias link the testimonies of the Modern Style present in Portugal and how did the press, in particular Modern Constructions, boost this movement through the publication of critical texts, photographs or models?   KEYWORDS: Abstraction; New art; Eclecticism; Staging; Line; Ornament; Synthesis; Utopia. (...)

ABSTRACT: In England, the so called Victorian Style, corresponding to the succession of many movements or attitudes within the Interior Design, would last a long time that coincided with the process of Industrial Revolution. We find, on the one hand, domestic interiors projects that evoke spatialities from previous periods, stimulated by the aim of reconstitution, on the other hand, projects whose concept effectively results in a fusion of principles and solutions from past seasons that lead to an original project. The new middle class had access to new decorative formulas, mass-produced and (...)

ABSTRACT: The need for proper communication is essential with regard to transmission and enjoyment of a show. Design has theoretical and practical tools necessary to comply with this assumption. With this research, we intend to highlight the need for a new theoretical and programmatic approach about the exhibition process, highlighting the importance of three-dimensional aspects and contextualizing solutions that contribute to understanding the exhibition as a communication vehicle. We call special attention for the potential of dialogue of the interior designer as an exhibition designer with (...)

ABSTRACT: Throughout the century XX, the history of European demography was associated with affirmation of the aging process, and in the century XXI was a generalization, on a large scale of this process to all European territories and world view of the meaning, profile, role and needs of an elderly population in profound changes. With the changes suffered in biological aging process, there is a growth in the use of the home environment and the need for social interaction, and therefore important to maintain these individuals in your own home. The recognition of the significance of light must (...)

ABSTRACT: Education, as a fundamental concept and state for the transformation of man in its multiple dimensions, finds a potential universe in its resources and contexts of reference that, projecting the school besides its role merely academic, legitimate the education as a promoter entity of a cultural pedagogy. Design and architecture, as concomitant areas of school reality, have been asserting new ways of aesthetic and functional expression and opening new didactic insights resulting from the fusion between operator, context, and object - main features to the preference redefinition and to (...)

ABSTRACT: The Spaniards found in the uplands of Central America the ideal setting for expanding their economic and political influence, while improving the monumental sense of the built environment already developed in the Iberian peninsula. This is especially proven by the impressive amount of hydraulic works in colonial Mexico since the second half of XVI° century, expression of a dominant group that - when finding practical solutions to everyday life - tries as well to introduce different habits and formal codes, laying a permanent mark upon the colonized territories. These (...)

ABSTRACT: The 1950s represent a growing influence of modernism in Portuguese architectural thought. This article, starting from the framework of this ideological context, intends to analyze the repercussions in the design of domestic interior space, namely in the interpretation of the spatial flow of the house. In fact, the space become wider, associating with the concept of “living-room” and some functions are suppressed, as a result of the representation’s changes of models of dwelling. Arquitectura Magazine (1927-1988) records the slow but firm arrival of modern movement (...)

ABSTRACT: Sometimes considerable as a fashion or trend phenomenon, in these last years the industrial archaeology has determined the recovery of several forbidden industrial buildings, cultural heritage of the end of the different industrial revolutions. This phenomenon involves strong economic and social implications, and revolves around the concept of patina, indispensable witness of the use and of the passage of time, that nowadays (and not only in interior design but also in furnishings and fashion) determines not only architectural phenomena, but also new ones to evaluate which it is (...)