Opinion 

Books without Distance

About Architecture Bestsellers

Opinion 

Books without Distance

About Architecture Bestsellers

Werner Oechslin 
30/06/1991


Fragmento de Biblioteca, Javier Sánchez Bellver

What are the most important books on architecture since 1965? The question is both absurd and justified; stimulating, in any case. Is there a Towards an Architecture of the Sixties, Seventies or Eighties, a book in which the convictions of a decade that, as in the case of that one and the Modern Movement, would later become an epoch, are condensed in the same way, with the same claw? Before passing a hasty and devastating judgment on the editorial production of our own time, let us console ourselves by recalling that even the aforementioned bestseller by Le Corbusier was no more than a compilation of articles previously published in the magazine L'Esprit Nouveau...[+]


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