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U+D 2014 n.01 urbanform and design di Giuseppe Strappa Dipartimento di Architettura e Progetto, Università di Roma “Sapienza”, via A.Gramsci 53, 00197 Roma, Italia. E-mail: giuseppe.strappa@uniroma1.it U+D Editorial In order to understand the state of contemporary architectural publishing. I believe we should re-read the articles that launched new phases in the great journals of the past. Take, for example, the courageous editorial published in 1941 in «Costruzioni-Casabella», issue n. 157, where Giuseppe Pagano attacked mannerist traditionalism and monumental obsessions, initiating a discussion on the formalism of Fascist architecture which was to influence the architectural debate right up to the present day. Or take that of Ernesto Nathan Rogers, published in 1954 in «Casabella-Continuità», issue n. 199, where the famous quote by Marcus Aurelius “He who sees present things sees all that has been since the dawn of time and what will come about for all eternity becau