Publications

This book is the first in the Concepts Series, dedicated, on the one hand, to great architects of today who have an undeniable influence on contemporary practice. On the other hand, each of these publications focuses on central themes of architecture as a cultural practice.

From Vitruvius's Ten Books of De Architectura, through Renaissance treatises such as Alberti's De re Aedificatoria, to the efforts at conceptual clarification by 19th-century French thinkers such as Quatremere de Quincy with his Dictionary of Architecture, to more recent treatises such as Robert Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto's Atlas of Novel Tectonics, or Patrik Schumacher's two-volume The Autopoiesis of Architecture, all of them have aimed to put into words the concepts and figures that make up an increasingly broad discipline whose scope becomes progressively more uncertain.

In Architecture, theories that delve into issues related to the project and seek to unbalance those aspects that are part of common sense and the established conditions of the discipline could be considered Projective Theories. This book compiles a series of theoretical texts on the project in Architecture that seek to investigate the core aspects of the discipline. It offers a journey through the architectural project from history, through contemporary problematizations in relation to technique and materiality, to current proposals regarding how to address the problem of ever-changing modes of representation. It also presents a series of design investigations with a high degree of projective speculation that seek to provide inventive responses to some of the problems raised in the texts.

This book presents geometric studies and subsequent design proposals for historical case studies such as the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna, Bramante and Vignola's Santa Maria della Consolazione, Bernini's San Andreas del Quirinale, and Borromini's San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, and contemporary works by authors such as Paolo Portoghesi, Doriana and Massimiliano Fuksas, and Rafael Moneo, among others. All of them were developed within the framework of the Lencinas Chair's Digital Research Workshop and the PIA PyH-56 Digital Hypertrophy research project hosted by the Research Secretariat of the Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Urban Planning of the University of Buenos Aires, between 2020 and 2021.

The devices of architecture and the procedural obstruction that contemporary design suffers from represent a challenge for the construction of novelty and the formulation of contemporary dwelling configurations. The book explores the design possibilities of machine-like architectural processes and their emergence as alternatives to conventional architectural configuration procedures. The project is organized into six design devices, through which a collective housing project is constructed that proposes new ways of appropriating the tectonic-habitual problems that encrypt the devices of the architecture of disciplinary history.

This book presents a geometric and organizational analysis of series of housing projects from the history of architecture and their subsequent variations and transformations. It explores the disciplinary models of authors such as Andrea Palladio, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Robert Venturi, Charles Moore, Michael Graves, Paolo Portoghesi, Charles Jencks, and Peter Eisenman. All of these were developed within the framework of the Lencinas Chair's Digital Research Workshop at the Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Urbanism of the University of Buenos Aires, between 2018 and 2021.

This book presents geometric studies and subsequent design proposals for canonical case studies in the work of Clorindo Testa and his many associations. These projects include the Bank of London, the National Library, the Central Naval Hospital, the La Perla Spa, the La Paz Auditorium, and the Auditorium of the University of Salvador. All of them were developed within the framework of the Lencinas Chair's Digital Research Workshop and the Digital Hypertrophy PIA PyH-56 research project, hosted by the Research Secretariat of the Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Urban Planning of the University of Buenos Aires, during 2022.

The construction of the disciplinary evolution of the archetype of centrality is not only a way of writing the history of architecture, but also a way of organizing it transversally through the study of the works that distinguish it. This book proposes the study of the archetype of centrality through an exhaustive selection of Argentine collective housing projects. Based on this design methodology, through which one work establishes concrete material relationships with others while constructing divergent lineages, the problem of centrality is consolidated as a projective modality that includes history as its fundamental material.

This book presents an organizational geometric analysis and the subsequent variation and proliferation of models embedded in the theoretical and practical constructions of J. N. L. Durand in his Précis des leçons d'architecture données à l'ecole polythechnique and in Giabattista Piranesi's Campo Marzio. All of them were developed within the framework of the Lencinas Chair's Digital Research Workshop and within the framework of the Supermodels PIA PyH-44 research project hosted by the Research Secretariat of the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism of the University of Buenos Aires, between 2019 and 2020.