El Croquis 208: Dogma turns its attention to Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara's Brussels-based practice, documenting unbuilt proposals that interrogate the relationship between architectural form, housing, and the contemporary city.
About This Book
This edition of El Croquis takes a deliberately provocative position: rather than surveying completed buildings, it presents a body of work that exists entirely as proposal — plans, models, and prototypes not yet constructed. Dogma's practice operates at the intersection of architectural theory and urban design, working with municipalities and planning agencies on large-scale questions about how cities are organised and for whom. The projects gathered here — among them a model city for four million inhabitants and social housing prototypes — place housing for the laboring classes at the centre of architectural thinking. Essays on urban transformation and a genealogy of workers' housing ground the projects in a broader intellectual and political context, making this a serious contribution to the discourse on collective living and urban form.
Key Features
- 320 pages of architectural drawings, plans, models, and critical essays on urban design and housing
- Features work by Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara, founders of Dogma
- Notable projects include a model for a City of 4,000,000 Inhabitants, a proposal for 44 social housing units, and a prototype for boarding houses in London
- Published by El Croquis
What You'll Discover
- How Dogma approaches large-scale urban design as a fundamentally architectural — not merely planning — problem
- The intellectual framework behind proposals for social and collective housing, drawn from a genealogy of housing for the laboring classes
- Why unbuilt work can carry the same disciplinary weight as constructed projects, and what that means for architectural culture
- The role of consultation with municipalities and planning agencies in shaping a practice concerned with public and urban transformation
About the Author
Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara are the founders of Dogma, an architectural firm focused on the relationship between architecture and the city. The practice works primarily on urban design and large-scale projects, consulting with municipalities and agencies on planning and architectural issues.
Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 320
- Dimensions: 250 x 340 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9788412333114
- Publisher: El Croquis
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and urbanists engaged with housing theory, urban design practice, and the political dimensions of collective living; students and academics working at the intersection of architectural history and contemporary city-making.