Does the global emergency braking finally have the power to catapult us from home-seclusion and home-introspection to a joint recovery of the housing value?

The pandemic has demonstrated the need of the public realm. But public space can no longer be defined only in urban terms, it requires trans-national thinking in order to be meaningful

Covid may have been the crisis that stopped us in our tracks, and to which we actually paid attention, that helped us to see other things a little easier

The consequences of this experience will undoubtedly be the result of social agreements in which architects have to provide necessary and appropriate syntheses (projects) for transformation

Is returning to rural areas only a tactile move in the wake of a world-wide crisis, an escape strategy, or could such return present feasible alternatives?

Our global civilization has to wake up and learn from both the threats and the benefits of nature, appearing this time in the form of the COVID-19 pandemic

As part of its paradoxes, the pandemic has also pushed us to a crucial crossroads that has immense implications for the built environment and the future of architecture practice

If it were to find floor plans of freedom, elevations of ecology, architecture could help us rebuild the ruins of our future

As the most immediate physical experience, the earthquake that took place in my city in the midst of the anti–pandemic measures, woke up our awareness of things at our hand and our (architectural) spatial sense

The direct experience of their spatial conditions will have given rise to a collective awareness about the elements on which the architectural discipline has traditionally placed most emphasis

If the future indicates that more viruses like Covid will come, we will have to radically question whether the domestic space can and should contain other functions, and if that can continue to be called a city

As a cultural and material practice that is highly sensitive to changes in political and economic structures, architecture needs to reinforce and expand its operational capacities

Because some technology tends to gear people away from the tactile architecture, architects ought to produce imaginative spatial experience and thoughtful craft to bring them back

Current discussions around the “Smart City” and “Living Lab” concepts indicate that Europe’s planning culture will change fundamentally as a result of the coronavirus. Epidemiology and urban planning have both a common history and future

Maybe this as a unique opportunity to place architecture as a discipline that cares for others, irrespective of the idea of growth. Architecture as research into social interactions and their possible outcomes

In the light of global warming, it is not so much the impact of the Great Pandemic Depression we should be concerned about, but rather what the global warming means for the future of humanity

The global pandemic has concretized the crucial call for alternative values, and ways of thinking and acting. The current confinement is teaching us that imagination is our ultimate mode of freedom