Archticeture & Design June edition available to read online

Architecture in Malta is increasingly being asked to do more than resolve function or form, it is being called to negotiate memory, identity, and a rapidly shifting cultural landscape. In this context, architecture becomes less about isolated objects and more about sustained conversations with place, history, and the future.

This perspective is powerfully echoed in a recent interview with renowned Maltese architect David Felice. Reflecting on a lifelong engagement with Valletta and as a founding partner at AP Valletta, Felice describes architecture as “a discipline that demands you engage simultaneously with beauty and utility, with memory and imagination.” His thinking consistently returns to the idea that working with what already exists is not a constraint but a generative act, one that allows the past to actively inform what comes next. As he puts it, “a small step back can be the foundation for a very large leap forward.”

Across the interview, Felice frames architecture as a civic responsibility shaped by research, collaboration, and long-term cultural thinking, where buildings are inseparable from the broader systems and stories that produce them.

This same sensitivity to context and transformation is reflected on the cover of the publicaiton, which features Pool Bloom by Mizzi Studio. The project reinterprets the geometry and cultural resonance of the Mosta Rotunda through a contemporary, nature-led pavilion that weaves together craft, atmosphere, and material innovation. Without overwhelming its setting, it offers a distilled expression of place, part structure, part experience, rooted in memory while quietly projecting forward.

Together, these stories celebrate architecture’s ability to connect past and future, tradition and innovation, people and place.

This, and much more, awaits in the pages ahead.

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