On the mythical path of Goethe, Peter Sloterdijk tries out a theory of color. We have dealt with the German thinker time and again in Arquitectura Viva since 2003, examining his texts on ‘atmoterrorism,’ human domestication, and the rejection of mode
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
Xenophon came to be highly popular among students of classical Greece because the simplicity of his language was perfect for translation exercises, perhaps in the same way that Julius Caesar’s Commentaries on the Gallic wars helped many of us learn t
New readings inject sap into revered trunks. The British Academy and the Getty Research Institute have revisited two classics of art history, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, no doubt the masterwork of Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897), and T
This book presents the architectural thinking of Juan Caramuel Lobkowitz (Madrid, 1606–Vigevano, 1682), writer on many subjects, theologian, mathematician, supporter of New Science from the angle of his philosophical probabilism, which he presented i
An academic void created by political tribulations led Rafael Moneo to Barcelona in 1971. This was good for Barcelona’s architecture school but perhaps bad for Madrid’s. As for Moneo, the Barcelona years saw the full ripening of his professional geni
Urban actors are exploring new concepts, methods, and forms of organization to deal with the physical, social, and environmental challenges that our cities currently face. We have thus borne witness to a profusion of calls for tenders, competitions,
Generally more visual than literary, architecture books have recorded and chronicled modernity, while helping to shape its ideas and forms.
The centenary of the artistic movement De Stijl prompts recollection of the theoretical texts by its foremost artist, the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian.
Magazines, whose features allow combining the appeal of images with the analysis of texts, have a longer life than criticism in newspapers.
Theory gets bad press. The English-speaking academe has led architectural thought so far from professional practice that ‘theory’ only arouses suspicion. Nevertheless, architecture is also built with ideas, and exploring how these develop in time thr
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When tweets mark the rhythm of a planet overflowing with information and paced no longer by the passing of the seasons, but rather by the periodic presentations of the Iphone, knowing what or who will be able to pass the test of time becomes a critic
Two centuries ago, Immanuel Kant observed, almost in passing, that "the hand is the window of the mind". Modern science has tried to confirm this fruitful idea, as has art and, in many ways, architecture as well. But while for the former the study of
Around 1968, the publisher Gustavo Gili Torra contacted me to commission me to translate another book: Changing Ideas in Modern Architecture, by Peter Collins, which had also been published in London in the significant year of 1965. The publisher had
Pier Vittorio Aureli
Cambridge 2023
MIT Press - 214 Pages
Sam Lubell Greg Goldin
London 2024
Phaidon - 368 Pages
Peter Sloterdijk El color de la contemporaneidad
Various authors Tot estava per fer i tot era possible
Francisco González de Canales An Architecture of Crisis
Gilles Clément
Barcelona 2024
Puente Editores - 104 Pages
Peter Heather The Triumph of Religion
Josephine Quinn A 4.000 Year History
Joshua Comaroff Ong Ker-Shing The Reanimated Edition
John Gage Practice and Memory from Antiquity to Abstraction
Mary Beard
Barcelona 219
Crítica - 256 Pages
Kenneth Frampton Arquitectura 1920-1070
Christophe Van Gerreway Crítica, historia y teoría desde el siglo XIX
Berta Bardí i Milà El patio y el pabellón
Flores & Prats
Barcelona 2023
Puente Editores - 164 Pages
Various authors
Lima 2022
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú - 188 Pages
Jenofonte Oikonomikós
Vittorio Ucceli Paesaggio Sacro
Thomas F. Reese
Los Ángeles 2023
The Getty Research Institute - 272 Pages
Stefan Bauer Simon Ditchfield Jacob Burckhardt's Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy Reconsidered
à la sauvette (ed.) Una reflexión sobre nuevos modelos de relación urbana, social e identitaria
Benno Albrecht Jacopo Galli A Design Strategy for Urban Reconstruction
Rudolph Schwarz Vom Bau der Kirche
