Lotus 175 (2024)

the districts of the global metropolis. Up there are buildings organized for the most part on the basisof impersonal relationships (“society”) while down below, horizontally, extend structures thatmay house collective settlements (“community”); concepts, moreover, that cannot be separatedinasmuch as they are elements of a single scheme of interpretation. Now, acting on the levelof the impersonal relationships typical of society, architecture can do its job by trying to giveform to the system of accords expressed in a social contract, or, working for the community presentin a given situation, seek to interpret the relationships experienced subjectively through feelingsof belonging and participation. In this issue of Lotus we try to show how architecture is strivingto interpret the two models as parts of a single scheme comprehensive of society as a whole.

Super Skyline

The Tower Ball

Vertigo

Reality Estate

 

Rafael Viñoly Architects

432 Park Avenue

Manhattan, New York, 2013

 

SHoP Architects

111 West 57th

Manhattan, New York, 2021

 

Neza-Chalco-Itza

Colori dal drone / Colors from the Drone

Dal Mexicable / From the Mexicable

 

Pierluigi Nicolin

La rigenerazione urbana e il futuro delle città /

Urban Regeneration and the Future of the City

 

OMA

Timmerhuis Rotterdam

Rotterdam, 2009-15

 

MOS Architects

Masterplan Laboratorio de Vivienda

Apan, Hildalgo, México, 2018

 

Saskia Sassen

Chi possiede le nostre città / Who Owns Our Cities

 

Mass Design Group

Umubano Primary School

Kigali, Kicukiro District, Rwanda, 2011

 

DnA_Design and Architecture

Tofu Factory, Caizhai Village, Songyang, China, 2018

 

Rural Urban Framework

Plug-in and Tower

Longyan, Fujian Province, China, 2019

 

Gabriele Pasqui

Per una comunità a venire /

For a Community to Come

 

Diener & Diener Architekten,

Martin Steinmann Architekt

City Museum Aarau

Aarau, Switzerland, 2007-15

 

Protest/Architecture. Barricades, Camps, Superglue

DAM, Frankfurt, 2023

MAK, Vienna, 2024

 

Renzo Piano Building Workshop

The Forum, Columbia University

New York, 2011-18

 

Renzo Piano Building Workshop

École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay

Saclay, France, 2013-20

 

Ottavio Di Blasi-ODB & Partners

Campus internazionale di Architettura

Politecnico di Milano, 2018-21

 

Giampaolo Nuvolati

La qualità della vita / Quality of Life

 

Stefano Boeri

Inequalities

24a Esposizione Internazionale, Triennale Milano

24th International Exhibition, Triennale Milano

 

Pentagram

Grafica per la 24a Esposizione Internazionale

Graphic Design for the 24th International Exhibition