Features essays by the architectural historian Pier Vittorio Aureli on Ludwig Hilberseimer, the editor Pamela Johnston on the birds and the bees, the fashion historian Caroline Evans on models and mannequins, the landscape historian Alessandra Ponte on the idea of the north and scholar Adrian Forty in conversation with architect John Winter.
Pier Vittorio Aureli studied at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia and later at the Berlage Institute in Rottedam. Aureli currently teaches at the AA School of Architecture in London and is visiting professor at Yale University. He is the author of many essays and several books, including The Project of Autonomy (2008) and The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture (2011).