Roberta Marcaccio

Shumi Bose

Ernesto Nathan Rogers

Ernesto Nathan Rogers (1909 – 1969) – architect, editor, writer and educator – can be credited with expanding the appreciation of modern architecture within the Italian context and beyond. Yet he is relatively unrecognized in the historiography of twentieth-century architecture. Most of the texts selected for this volume have been translated into English for the first time. They reveal his tireless efforts to render the past as present, from linguistic and practical points of view, and his unique capacity to ‘handle and remould’ architectural terms, concepts and language.

The Hero of Doubt

"Places for Strangers" aims to illustrate a set of continually negotiated principles and attitudes which London based mae Architects have established in their architectural and urban design. Juxtaposing polemic texts published through the duration of the practice with a fresh revisitation of mae s project portfolio, "Places for Strangers" is a contemporary examination of the architects predicament rather than an exhaustive monograph. It is a candid insight into the possibility of aligning ideological principles with the prosaic realities of design practice where a building and place s occupant is unknown. The new book takes a form between manifesto and manual. It acts as a manifesto in so far as it advocates a position on urban design and architecture, and a manual in so far as it elucidates an approach to producing critically engaged design, which questions and challenges the rules that we work with. It comprises a number of texts by Alex Ely with contributions by former mae partner Michael Howe, written between the practice inception in 2001, and the present day. These texts, written for newspapers such as "The Guardian" or professional perioducals like "The Architects Journal, " are polemic in their nature, illustrating the sociopolitical, ethical and formal concerns navigated in architectural production today. "

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