JORGE LUÍS BORGES AND SUR
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…
THE URBANIZATION OF POVERTY – ACADEMIC TRAINING AND SOCIAL AWARENESS
The urbanization intensification process of the last decades is well-known, as well as its asymmetry. However, looking at generalized urbanization is often confused with a generalized look at urbanization…
LABORATORY FOR THE BASES OF CONTEMPORARY PORTUGUESE ARCHITECTURE
The political and economic scenario of the new millennium involved a critical discourse on architecture. After the affluent 1990s, a time when the European project became more consolidated, came a time of instability…
The lost history of the City of the Captive Globe Project
“In 1972, while still a student, Rem Koolhaas moved to New York with artist and wife Madelon Vriesendorp. At the same time, Madelon Vriesendorp was producing what would be her New York Series, a collection of paintings illustrating her impressions of the city”
Entre Líneas y Palabras . Poética Arquitectónica en la obra de Sverre Fehn
“El carácter crítico de Sverre Fehn, lo ha llevado a desarrollar, paralelamente a su obra arquitectónica, una serie de reflexiones teóricas mediante manuscritos, que pretenden posicionar su pensamiento y dar a su arquitectura un grado de inteligibilidad.”
Housing. From the highest number for all
“A product of its time and of the post-war housing problem, Pantera Cor-de-Rosa lies between the problem of the “Greatest Number” and “housing for all”
What is Worth Knowing
“Now, as far as teaching of architecture is concerned, I think that first we must break free from that annoying feeling of guilt.”
Voice(s) without a place, place(s) of the voice – Dossier
“Though currently humans concentrate more and more in the city, the word city seems to have multiple meanings and to require an analysis.”