bfo-Journal 2.2016
“A Partial Synthesis”: Debates on Architectural Realism

We are pleased to announce that the second issue of the bfo-Journal, a multilingual, peer-reviewed and open access journal, issued once a year and hosted on bauforschungonline.ch is now online. The aim of the bfo-Journal is to provide a new space for innovative studies of the highest quality on all aspects of architectural history and critique, urbanism, and conservation of historical monuments.
This second issue examines the theme of Realism and its manifestations in the architecture of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries (see below).

The Editorial Board
Francine Giese, Richard Buser, Ariane Varela Braga, Irina Davidovici, Sonja Hildebrand

Table of Contents

Editorial
Irina Davidovici

Realism and Rationalism: An Italian-German Architectural Discourse
Silvia Malcovati

In Search of Socialist Truthfulness: Debates on Realism in Soviet Architecture 1930-1950
Maria Silina

Auf der Suche nach Klarheit. Zum Realismus im Werk des Schweizer Architekten Hans Schmidt
Kathrin Siebert

Immagini della forma. Il realismo di Asnago e Vender tra pittura e architettura
Giulio Bettini

A Magic-Real Gap in Architecture
Carolina Dayer