Divisare

DIVISARE
Categories Architecture
Year founded 1998
Country Italy
Based in Rome
Language English

DIVISARE is the first architecture website of the history of the Web. Online since 1998 as Europaconcorsi, it changed name in 2015. With almost 20 years of history behind it, and over 140,000 projects, DIVISARE is the largest existing archive of contemporary architecture. Curated by the team based in Rome, Italy, the archive is the ultimate Atlas of Architecture, a collection of thematic albums (organized per elements, materials, types, etc.) and featuring the most relevant pieces of architecture ever designed.

Divisare means imagining, designing with the mind, literally "to devise". The term was used by Leon Battista Alberti to define the work of the architect: "Him I call an Architect, who, by sure and wonderful Art and Method, is able, both with Thought and Invention, to devise." (Leon Battista Alberti — De Re Aedificatoria, 1450 - original Italian: "Architettore chiamerò io colui, il quale saprà con certa, e maravigliosa ragione, e regola, sì con la mente, e con lo animo divisare").

Divisare Books

In early 2017, DIVISARE launched DIVISARE BOOKS, a high-quality, independent editorial project, a modular publication dedicated to architecture documents, a constantly growing archipelago of monographic issues each tackling a different topic: drawings collections, photographic surveys, visual essays, short writings, projects, etc.



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