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Divisare is the result of an effort of selection and classification of contemporary architecture conducted for over twenty years. Patient work, done with care, image after image, project after project, to offer you the ideal tool with which to organize your knowledge of contemporary architecture. Instead of a quick, distracted web, we want a slow, attentive one. Instead of hastily perused information, we prefer knowledge calmly absorbed. This is why Divisare is a place to perceive architecture slowly, without distractions. No click — like — tweet — share, no advertising, banners, pop-ups. Just architecture, no more and no less. If you like what we’re doing, please Subscribe. You will get full access to divisare archive and you will help us keep the lights on.

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What does divisare mean? 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. “Architettore chiamerò io colui, il quale saprà con certa, e maravigliosa ragione, e regola, sì con la mente, e con lo animo divisare”. “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, 1452)