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The mass housing revolution that never was. The web version CNN Style (1) uses this title to introduce Jean Prouvè, great leader of the mass housing revolution. Prouvè’s revolution (2), between the 1930s and 1950s, was an amazing research into prefabricated steel houses: an ethical conception of form applied to mass housing, where terms like […]

Prouvé is a metonymical figure in prefabrication. His achievements, between the 1930s and 1970s, were developed in line with the search for the new conducted by the Modern Movement, within a concept of the new as a value to be pursued. This was light prefabrication conceived according to an architectonic distinction (going to the point […]

Of the numerous semantic declinations of recycling, some being extremely bizarre and inconsistent, there is one that deserves special attention because it is applicable to architecture. I am referring to recycling as an action applied to those buildings with no ‘cultural’ value, where the drop in efficiency in functional (a use that is no longer […]

Throughout the XX century until now, the relationship between architecture and construction has had a significant invariant in “dry construction”1, characterised by at least three paradigms that have gradually changed the way of producing and constructing, but even before that, the way of conceiving and designing buildings. These paradigms form the taxonomical terms of the […]