In 1561, one thousand years after the Diocletian bathhouse fell into ruin under the Roman Empire, the pope directed Michelangelo to reinvent the building as a church—an early example, says Graduate School of Design (GSD) design critic in architecture Angelo Lunati, of the power of transformation. The Santa Maria degli Angeli is the earliest example of a […]

Even before the last flight had taken off from Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport, in 2008, the future of the historic airport’s 355-hectare site was the subject of intense dispute. Competing plans to transform the area into new residential neighborhoods and commercial areas, integrating the vast airfield into the surrounding urban fabric, stalled amid protests against development. […]