atelier.204 :: Venustas

The single-minded concentration on Utilitas (utility) and Firmitas (stability) in architecture and urban design over the past decades has given way to a desire for more beauty and atmospheric moments. A new desire for beauty and quality of life in cities has been awakened!
Two questions follow from this: what should aesthetically beautiful, functionally useful and, not least, sustainable public spaces look like? And, what criteria and models should we draw on when planning, building and designing such spaces?
Today’s architects and urban designers must reclaim the atmospheric competency that was once inherent to the profession! Atmospheric tempered Urban Design is more than ever the art of engendering an urban quality of life.