Robert Venturi once wrote ‘Main Street is almost all right’ – a celebratory comment on the messy vitality of the built environment of the ordinary. In this connection, society’s ambiguities, its causalities and improvisations have led to a wide and diverse range of practices such as top-down interventions + subcultures + subversive acts + minority expressions….. practices which architecture embraces along with the manifold experiences of the city.

Redefining the common goods, their ethics, their aesthetics and their economics start with writing stories of architecture that encapsulate the manifold experiences of the city. Thus, an architectural task in which space design and design of a new collective dream, myth or scenario about who we are and what we desire to be is interrelated. Volume 19: Is identity the issue?

Robert Venturi once wrote ‘Main Street is almost all right’ – a celebratory comment on the messy vitality of the built environment of the ordinary. In this connection, society’s ambiguities, its causalities and improvisations have led to a wide and diverse range of practices such as top-down interventions + subcultures + subversive acts + minority expressions….. practices which architecture embraces along with the manifold experiences of the city.

Redefining the common goods, their ethics, their aesthetics and their economics start with writing stories of architecture that encapsulate the manifold experiences of the city. Thus, an architectural task in which space design and design of a new collective dream, myth or scenario about who we are and what we desire to be is interrelated. Volume 19: Is identity the issue?

Volume examines the architectural task of relating the design of spaces that advance and address new collective dreams, myths while also examining scenarios about what we are and desire.