A photograph of the university halls of residence, Collegio del Colle, in Urbino, Italy designed by the architect Giancarlo De Carlo. Photograph by Cesare Colombo.

A Useful Definition of Architecture

What is architecture? A helpful definition by Giancarlo De Carlo clarifies what architecture is and who’s involved.

Giancarlo De Carlo: How to Keep Educational Architecture Human or Creative Anti-Institutionalism

A talk I gave at the Bartlett’s Spatial Engagement Network meeting about Anarchism, Education and Space on the architect Giancarlo De Carlo.

Image of cover of De Carlo and Buncuga book

An Anarchic Take on Architecture, Space and Education – Giancarlo De Carlo and Franco Bunčuga’s Conversazioni su Architettura e Libertà

Some notes about a book of interviews with Italian architect and anarchist thinker Giancarlo De Carlo.

What High Schools Look Like and Why

After 1968, James Ackerman, Giancarlo De Carlo and others questioned school design: why? why like this? This post revisits their questions.