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The article presents the discussion on AREA repurpose historical fragments for informing new narratives in the practice. Topics include powder-blue foam geometries being clad in metallic paper, embedded in contoured cardboard landscapes; and generation of architects forced for navigating the own path through the harsh landscape of austerity.

The article provides information on the history of the "napkin sketch" in architecture, focusing on how renowned architects have used informal sketches on everyday items like napkins to initiate design concepts. It explores how these sketches have become iconic representations of creative genius in the field, perpetuating the myth of the lone architect with divine inspiration.

The assembled papers of Svetlana Kana Radevic, one of the few women architects to command a profile of national prominence in socialist Yugoslavia, are kept inconspicuously in a cousin's spare bedroom in Petrovac-na-Moru, Montenegro. That cousin is herself a practising architect, one with an avowed commitment to preserving as best she can the documentation that Kana (as Radevié is still known in Montenegro) personally possessed when she died in 2000 at the age of 63. PHOTO (BLACK & WHITE): In 1968 Radevic accepted the Federal Borba Prize for Architecture, at only 29 years oíd (left). [Extracted from the article]

I was patient in the red house, pulled back the curtains each morning to watch the birds steal sunflower seeds from damp flower pots. Lily Zhou GLORIA GOOD / ALAMY Milk carton poem It's true: there's nothing sweet about the rain. GLORIA GOOD / ALAMY Milk carton poem It's true: there's nothing sweet about the rain. [Extracted from the article]

The article talks about Japanese architect Shigeru Ban's architectural works using paper and recycled cardboard tubes directed towards humanitarianism. Topics include critical view and comparison of Ban's works with architects such as; Zaha Hadid and Reyner Banham, ban being awarded the Pritzker prize, and his association with architect and professor Kiyoshi Ikebe. Ban's works including Paper House, Rwandan refugee shelters and architect Emilio Ambasz's work through an exhibition.