Architecture: Art for Living Area 1996-2025

This book offers a thoughtful refl ection on the meaning of
celebrating an anniversary, questioning the value of a mere
recurrence if not accompanied by critical reflection. Citing
Adorno, it states that nothing holds value simply because it once
did, but to forget history and memory is to deny the existence of
knowledge.
In the case of the magazine Area, founded in 1990, the
milestone of thirty years becomes a living testimony to an era
marked by profound changes in the ways we live, design, and
communicate. With over 180 issues, Area has spanned two
centuries, documenting the architectural debate with consistency
and independence from the logic of current trends. Since 1996,
when it shifted from a quarterly to a bimonthly publication, the
magazine has moved its focus from object design to domestic and
inhabitable space, establishing itself as a hybrid product between
book and magazine. In doing so, it anticipated the decline of
print as a vehicle for news, favoring slower and deeper thematic
research