Vesper is a multidisciplinary biannual scientific journal published by the Department of Architecture and Arts at the L'Università Iuav di Venezia. It looks at the relationships between forms and processes of thought and of design and although it's fair to call this an academic examination of the arcane, it's also a project that will attract anyone with a curious mind.
Vesper hosts a wide spectrum of narratives, writing and stylistic differences, ‘privileging the visual intelligence of design, of graphic expression, of images and contaminations between different languages.’ The journal is conceived as a series of thematic issues, each one divided into sections to offer diverse perspectives and to search out reverberations between ideas and reality change, connections between tangible facts and their potentials, transformative prospects and collective perception.
About Vesper 13, from the publisher:
In 2005, Giancarlo De Carlo passed away. A naval officer, architect, engineer, professor, member of Team 10, founder of the Ilaud, director of the magazine “spazio e società” and the editorial series ‘Struttura e forma urbana’, he was the author of numerous realised plans and projects, alongside proposals and architecture projects that remained on paper, as well as books and writings. He was, above all, allergic to labels and manifestos. Twenty years after his death, it is possible to examine in detail the many enduring directions this architect left behind. Simultaneously, one may observe the multiplication of trajectories as a modus operandi and as a figure that releases discordant energies. A stellar imagery emerges based on actions such as: severing ties with the past, changing one’s mind, swimming against the current, relaunching towards the future, writing about doubts and failures, leaving incomplete traces for others to interpret, and, above all, remaining on the journey. Therefore, the aim is to celebrate the architect but also, by starting from the constellation of trajectories that he outlined, to reflect on the possibility of relaunching a vision of the project that is wide-ranging, multifaceted, and realised using diverse tools in various fields. GDC’s work thus becomes a mutable map: under one light, it recounts concrete events, apparent stories, and shadowy spaces yet to be illuminated through new research. From another angle, it emerges as an abstract device, capable of inspiring further essays and explorations.
