Luigi Snozzi is one of several Ticinese architects who came to prominence during the late 1970s, and is best known for his projects in Monte Carasso, a suburb of the Ticinese cantonal capital of Bellinzona. His attitude is based on a critical reading of site; a concern for the creation of place, specifically on peripheral sites; and the reinforcing of existing settlement patterns. His involvement in Monte Carasso over thirty years has transformed the previously low density, centre-less dormitory settlement, offering an alternative to the suburban model. Through his interventions, Snozzi has won the support of the inhabitants and been able to restructure the town's planning process.

An exploration of how public narratives about Highland architectural identity and private narratives about sustainability and return have informed the construction of a new house.

In his Unitarian Church at Rochester, Kahn manipulates the lighting of the interior to make manifest the ‘form’ of the space, thus participating in the Christian Neoplatonic tradition.

Twentieth-century masterplans of Baalbeck tourism and fantasies of modernism and classical antiquity are privileged over the present everyday. How can an alternative be envisioned?

An immaterial architecture of fleeting perception is proposed, descendent of the Renaissance practice of drawn idea and eighteenth-century architecture of picturesque perception.

Le Corbusier took a profound interest in fireplaces yet little commentary has been made on his charged and provocative hearths and their role in the creative process.