Regarding recent decades, certain milestones have taken centre stage in historiographic narratives of Spanish social and cultural history: the political transition to democracy, countercultural and citizen movements and socioeconomic globalization…
The cave-houses were traditional houses in south-eastern Spain until the 1980´s, but due to emigration, new housing and the pressure of local and regional governments, they were practically abandoned for almost two decades…
This paper addresses an increasingly observable but until now hardly examined phenomenon: how individuals, highly engaged with the symbolic value of architecture, appropriate modernist housing estates, progressively replacing the former residents who are mostly indifferent towards architecture…
Over the past decades relevant ethnographic work have emerged about the house and its material culture reveiling…
Almost ten years have passed since I read and studied, for the first time, “Autobiografia Científica” by architect Aldo Rossi (1931-1997), a book published thirty-five years ago by MIT…
In the beginning of his academic career Edward Soja (1940-2015), an American geographer, focused on African Studies, though he had already been a critic of urban and regional planning…
Manuel Vicente can be explained in many ways. He was born in Lisbon in 1934 and died there in 2013. He was a man with a huge European culture, tempered by visits to the America of Louis Kahn and Robert Venturi, giants with whom he was in close contact…
This article intends to show the relevance of the South in the architectural universe of Raúl Hestnes Ferreira. The text is divided into three parts: the first deals with the family environment and the neorealist approach followed by his father, José Gomes Ferreira…
Asplund was neither the last nor the first Nordic architect to travel to the South. Indeed, the territories and the different cultures that have existed in the Mediterranean – whether in the Italian peninsula or in Greece, including North Africa…
This paper focuses on the rise of literary Modernism in Argentina, upon publication of the “wall journal”, which its founder, Jorge Luís Borges, named Prisma and which the Argentinian writer…
