ABSTRACT
The synchronicity and consistency of the proposal and publication of this issue of PpA dedicated to the common space, with the 17th Venice Biennale, convened on the theme "How will we live together?", offers the opportunity to compare, notwithstanding distances, two ways of approaching emerging statements of the spaces where encounters take place. Beyond the inevitable cliché regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, there are other coincidences, such as the different scales from which to tackle the subject, the importance of play spaces, as well as -at least in the calls- an optimism as to the role of architecture. However, the comparison shows that there is still some way to go before the results of this research can be applied in the imminent future to the space common to all. If in the proposals of the pavilions of the Mostra the weight of formal innovation or the rhetoric of the event strain the transfer to daily and permanent reality, in the research published in this number there still remains a process of metamorphosis of the results to incorporate them into the practice of the architectural project. In this regard, the texts collected in this issue are shoots that have to grow with consistency, to emerge as soon as possible from the interior of architecture to revise the common, everyday space that belongs to everyone. © 2021 Universidad de Sevilla. All rights reserved.