Arquitectura

Architecture can be a very useful practice if considered in its basic meaning. A shelter or a place for commerce can cover some of the primary needs of people. Another and maybe a little more noble-way to conceive architecture is to relate it to a second level of human needs, those spiritual. After having a shelter, a market, a bath, a working and leisure place, people needs to deal with their intellectual or spiritual sphere. Churches, sanctuaries, cemeteries or temples come in this perspective. This issue features Memorial projects: different approaches, concerns and solutions from different parts of the world related to several human facts and events, from heroic to tragic. A special attention should be paid to this category of projects because of their substance and meaning. Architectural tools are here challenged to give shape to feelings, hopes, worries, myths and remembrance.