Review of Ailton Krenak’s book “Futuro Ancestral”
DELIA SLONEANU
“Presenting the book “Futuro Ancestral” is not a simple task because it requires translating knowledge from an indigenous worldview into another form. “
Begin Again. Fail Better
JOÃO MIRANDA
“The publication, in addition to encouraging a slow and attentive mode of reading, places drawing at the centre of architectural reflection.”
Joaquim Machado de Castro, Analytical Description of the Execution of the Equestrian Statue Erected in Lisbon to the Glory of His Most Faithful Majesty King Joseph I
MADALENA MIRA
“The Analytical Description of the Execution of the Equestrian Statue, published by Joaquim Machado dVVe Castro in 1810, is a rare and highly significant document within both Portuguese and European artistic contexts.”
The substance of things
JOÃO MIRANDA
“Ultimately, it is possible to assert that the exhibition The substance of things lies at the genesis of new matters, as the invitation for the exhibition and the subsequent development of the exhibition project facilitated the creation of two (new) axes.”
water. and the house is the world, by Carlos Nogueira
TIAGO LEONARDO
“It is certainly possible to find crossovers between the two ‘phases’ described (both accentuate the qualities of the formats in which they exist) and to define the role of Carlos Nogueira as a tutelary figure in charge of rewriting and reorganizing a collection that varies.”
The Legacy of Jones Odriozola: Quito’s Regulatory Plan. 1942- 1945.
ANDREA SALAZAR VELOZ e ALEJANDRO BECERRA MARTÍNEZ
“This plan sought to regulate the growth of the city of Quito through a proposal for a more efficient and equitable spatial organization emphasizing three fundamental axes: housing, work and leisure.”
NAKED CITY: THE DEATH AND LIFE OF AUTHENTIC URBAN PLACES DE SHARON ZUKIN
Sharon Zukin is a sociologist and professor at Brooklyn College. Her books explore the most recent urban transformations that have been developed by deindustrialization…
TERRAIN VAGUE DE IGNASI BY SOLA-MORALES
It is mainly about the work of some photographers, who in the1970’s turn to urban spaces that are abandoned, obsolete, deactivated and forgotten in course of the urban expansion…
Flashback / Carrilho da Graça. A network of interlocked lines.
MARIA PIA FONTANA e MIGUEL MAYORGA
“However, for him what matters most is to ask himself something else: “Why these and not others?” Each beginning corresponds to an archetype of a “possible” novel, because it contains themes and variations.”
CONVERSATIONS WITH FORM: A WORKBOOK FOR STUDENTS, BY N. JOHN HABRAKEN
Dutchman N. John Habraken, award-winning Puerto Rican Andres Mignucci and American Jonathan Teicher are the authors of Conversations with form: a workbook for students of architecture…