ANTA is a journal created for the exchange of ideas that serve to enrich architectural discourse. Periodicals that put forward sensible urban, architectural, and environmental approaches, or offer themselves as platforms for meaningful debate, are woefully few in number today.
As we publish more issues of ANTA, we need your support to sustain the journal and the robust architectural dialogue it offers. You can help continue these conversations by purchasing past and present issues. ANTA will become as prominent and successful as the circle of people who read it and engage in its spirit of reasoned inquiry.
Issues
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Vol. 5 (Spring 2023)
The fifth issue of ANTA continues its mission by presenting alternative arguments against prevailing attitudes that prioritize idiosyncratic design over tradition. The projects range from masterplans for new towns and neighborhoods to urban interventions, academic campus buildings, reconstructions of urban edifices, and new buildings housing cultural institutions. Essays cover topics such as architectural precedent, the impact of sympathetic reconstruction on urban spaces, and reflections on the manifesto for urban development in Berlin-Brandenburg. This issue also includes historical perspectives, conversations with industry professionals, critiques, and insights from voices of the past. ANTA remains a crucial instrument in promoting discussion and understanding of classical and traditional architecture.
Featured Authors and Firms
Harald Bodenschatz, James C.Brainard, Kyle Dugdale, David Frazer Lewis, Vince Graham, Ernesto Nathan Rogers, Fritz Neumeyer, Timothy Patitsas, Daniel Solomon, Emily Talen, Mark Wilson Jones
Atelier Xavier Bohl, Dover, Kohl & Partners, HBRA Architects, Hilmer & Sattler und Albrecht, Krier · Kohl · Architects, Perkins Eastman, The Association of Architects and Engineers of Berlin-Brandenburg & Collaborators, Treese Architekten, Yang Cho-cheng
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Vol. 4 (Fall 2022)
In its fourth issue, ANTA meticulously traces the trajectory of Spanish architecture to the Americas, offering a comprehensive exploration of its historical roots and contemporary expressions. The narrative unfolds chronologically, commencing with the architectural landscape of turn-of-the-century Spain and progressing to cutting-edge projects in the present day. The focus then shifts across the Atlantic, examining the intricate transference of Spanish architectural traditions to the United States, with specific emphasis on the states of Florida and California. Throughout, the editors dissect the nuanced ways in which architectural traditions are shared and adapted over time and space. The featured projects encompass both new designs and restoration efforts, offering a comprehensive panorama of the continuous evolution of Spanish architectural ideas. The urbanism section takes a broader perspective, outlining three pioneering new towns that integrate traditional town planning principles. The issue serves as a testament to the perpetual adaptation and mutual influence across diverse places and scales, providing a nuanced understanding of the continuous evolution and transference of these rich architectural ideas.
Featured Authors and Firms
Jorge L. Hernandez, Jean-François, Lejeune Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Andrés Duany, MarcAppleton, Sergi Bastidas, Javier Cenicacelaya, Juan de Dios de la Hoz, Alejandro García Hermida, Leopoldo Gil Cornet, Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, Richard John, Dennis P. Doordan, Stefanos Polyzoides, David Rinehart, Javier Rivera, Clarence S. Stein, Willem Swârt, Lander Uncilla Cortaberria, Fernando Vela Cossío
Appleton Partners LLP, Attis Corporation & TSW Design, César Portela, Cúre & Penabad, de la Guardia Victoria Architects & Urbanists, DPZ CoDesign, Duncan G. Stroik Architect, Espinósfernándezcid, Jeff Shelton Architect ,Jiménez & Linares, JLH Architect, Khoury Vogt Architects, Martinez Alvarez Architecture, Moule & Polyzoides, Architects and Urbanists, Oronoz & Iparraguirre, The Cearnal Collective, Trelles Cabarrocas Architects
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Vol. 3 (Spring 2022)
In the third issue, ANTA draws upon the relationship between historic preservation and contemporary design for new development with which the academy and profession of architecture are intensely engaged, but they remain two distinct categories, one looking at the past and the other at the future. Both arose and have been developed in response to separate agendas and often pursue divergent sets of values and aims. ANTA editors advocate, on the contrary, that conservation of cultural heritage and the search for new (and sustainable) architecture are properly two aspects of a single discipline that can only benefit from the contributions of both constituents.
We can facilitate this convergence by adopting a Vitruvian, three-fold view of the issue: beauty of form, durability of construction, and fitness to purpose. Today, we might redefine these terms as beauty, sustainability, and justice. This issue of ANTA features essays providing historical and theoretical insights, followed by conversations with Howard Davis and Rafael Manzano Martos. The remainder highlights initiatives and projects showcasing the collaboration between historic preservation and sustainable new construction, emphasizing the diversity of styles, programs, and geographical contexts, with a focus on individuals who embody the potential for a sustainable building culture.
Featured Authors and Firms
M. Wesam Al Asali, Patrick Burke, Giovanni Carbonara, Howard Davis, Marianne Cusato, Quinn Evans, David Flaharty, Alejandro García Hermida, Andrew Gould, Stephen E. Hartley, Claudine Houbart, Jukka Ilmari Jokilehto, María Margarita Segarra Lagunes, Fernando Vegas López-Manzanares, Oliver Martin, Rafael Manzano Martos, Patrick Moore, Tonya Ohnstad and Students, Hugh Peter, Steven Semes, Veronica Vaida, Paolo Vitti, Alessandra Vittorini, Jonathan Wetherill
ADAM Architecture, Quinn Evans Architects, Kirk E. Peterson & Associates, M. Hosam Jiroudy
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Vol. 2 (Fall 2021)
ANTA 2 highlights the considerable realizations of traditional architecture worldwide with projects in Belgium, China, France, Guatemala, India, Italy, the Persian Gulf, Spain, the UK, and the US. Within the featured projects, essays, critiques, and more, the contributors track the meaning of numerous questions in regards to traditional architecture including architectural regionalism, the relationship between the city and nature, the difficult legacy of architecture and colonialism, and so on. As an element of traditional practice, a section on drawing contains several broad approaches emphasizing the instrumental importance of manual drawing for forming architects as well as conceiving, expressing, and realizing architecture.
Featured Authors and Firms
Fernando Bajo, Vinayak Bharne, Pier Carlo Bontempi, Javier Cenicacelaya, Maurice Culot, Norman Crowe, John Dutton, Nicolas Duru, Tanvi Jain, Léon Krier, Tian Leng, Robin F. Rhodes, Jamshid Sepehri, Aashini Sheth, Luis F. Gómez-Stern, Chris Wilson, Xiaoxini Zhao
Bastidas Architecture, Breitman & Breitman, Estudio Urbano, John Simpson Architects, Tian Leng and Xiaoxin Zhao, Torti Gallas + Partners
Drawings by: Simone Boni, Gilles Chaillet, Daniel Graves, Karl Gruber, Laurie Olin, Giuseppe Valadier
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Vol. 1 (Spring 2021)
ANTA presents itself as a venue for the exchange of ideas that serve to ameliorate the built and natural environments, and enrich architectural discourse; for the preservation and dissemination of essential historical and cultural knowledge; and for the publication of noteworthy new buildings and urban centers that put the long-term needs of the city and its citizens before the short-term interests of the client and designer. In the inaugural issue, the theme “Urbes ac Tecta” (Cities and Buildings) encapsulates the importance of restituting the traditional city to combat unprincipled chaotic sprawl which has disregarded urban and environmental balance, the decimation of centers and more. Through projects, essays, historical perspectives, this issue emphasizes the broad implications of a building culture that serves suburbanized cities and the problems that culture creates.
Featured Authors and Firms
Robert Adam, Teodoro de Anasagasti, Maxim Atayants, Michael Dennis, Richard Economakis, Gustavo Giovannoni, Donald Gray, Mohamad Hamouié, Léon Krier, Jean-François Lejeune, Dimitris Pikionis,Thomas Norman Rajkovich, Ingrid Rowland, Allan Strus, Carroll William Westfall
Austin Tunnell Building Culture, Historical Concepts, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, ROMA Design Group, Urban Design Associates
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Institutional rate ( 2020 to 2023)
This rate is available to universities and colleges for purchasing the complete collection of ANTA issues, spanning one through six. Institutional orders will be prioritized as the first recipients of ANTA Volume 6 upon its publication in the fall 2024. Purchase includes physical copies only, digital versions are not available at this time.This rate includes a special edition book, "An Architectural Pedagogy for the Twenty-First Century." It is intended as a summary of the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture's curriculum, and showcases undergraduate and graduate student work. This book is offered to all schools of architecture as a way to exchange ideas about teaching about the built environment during our unique time in history. This issue will also be mailed upon its official publication in late spring 2024.
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Subscription: Vol. 4 and Vol. 5 ( )
By purchasing this subscription, customers will receive a copy of ANTA Volume 4 at the time of purchase. Furthermore, subscribers will be prioritized as the first recipients of ANTA Volume 5 upon its official publication.