The term ‘centralized composition’ brings memories of reading Wittkower’s Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism as a student. How ideas travel is astonishing: in this case, architectural theories of the Renaissance were retrieved in the amb
The avant-gardes got us used to thinking of history as made of revolutions: catastrophes forming tabulae rasae for new things. This culmination of the recently deceased Jacques Lucan’s trajectory is based on quite a different idea: more than radical
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The ideas of Vitruvius have been questioned for some time. The figure inscribed within a perfect geometry sums up the worldview that since Leonardo has kept the human being at the center of existence, but on a planet of increasing degradation and ine
In liquid times like these, it is problematic to call architecture ‘science.’ Problematic and, as Ramón Araujo says, polemic, because he opines that architecture is more reason than invention, and because for him, the process behind projects is scien
In front of a thick cloud formed by seawater evaporating and coming in contact with lava from the erupting Hawaiian volcano Kilauea, a pair of tourists smile and pose for a selfie. This is the picture on the cover of Our Happy Life, the catalog of a
At last we can enjoy a book by one of the most active Madrid architects of the generation born in the 1970s. We welcome what could be a renewed interest in architectural essays, and the optimism triggered by the book’s coinciding with the consolidati
Every avant-garde recognizes itself in modernity, but not all modernity recognizes itself in avant-gardes: thus starts an ‘aesthetic essay’ that explains the complex, often contradictory tenets that gave rise to artistic modernity. ‘Aesthetic essay’
Here is a renewed ‘manual,’ as intentional as it is flexible, structured into thematic essays on episodes that have been instrumental in shaping the city and urban landscapes. In the foreword Rafael Moneo explains that “the editors’ selection of argu
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