Interconnected studio references through time
The Wall Atlas emerges as a working and thinking device within the studio, inspired by the visual archive tradition developed by Souto de Moura and by other intellectual frameworks, such as the associative montage of Walter Benjamin, the typological memory of Aldo Rossi, and the systematic cataloguing strategies of Oswald Mathias Ungers.
It stems from the importance of the image as a repository of collective memory and an operative device for the production of ideas, understanding reference not as direct citation, but as active project material.
Over time, the atlas has grown organically, accumulating architectures from different periods and typologies alongside works from other fields. This heterogeneous corpus constitutes a field of relations where images enter into dialogue, enabling unexpected associations and opening new lines of thought.