Today, more than ever, burial grounds overcome established spatial manipulations and synthetic speculations of the past. Urban accumulations and natural equilibria are about to radically transform their status and identity. The tittle explores contexts of urban and natural historicity, urging anthropological aspects as well as scientific and technologic advances upon burial grounds mutability. featured image: fantastic […]

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The tittle indicates a landscape design project by Dieter Kienast and Günther Vogt, for the oldest Swiss city, in the south-eastern Alps. My personal landscape investigations are closely linked to this place. In a field trip organised to explore Swiss architecture, on my way from Lake Constance to the Ticino valley, I made a stop to visit the […]

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The tittle explores ambiental thresholds and emergence of immateriality, in contemporary architectural and landscape design, on the basis of interaction between synthetic vocabulary and environmental performativity. Weather outside is sunny and bright… It has been formed as further elaboration of extended research outcome on dematerialization of (architectural and landscape) ‘enclosures’. The tittle indicates levels of […]

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The tittle indicates a research and recruitment project on diverse Mediterranean natural terrains more details soon…

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This blog is written by Despoina D. Zavraka. It expresses personal views on architecture, landscape architecture and urban design. Certain aspects of current research and design agenda are being presented. additional details at: http://despoinazavraka.blogspot.gr/  

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