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Panoramas of the World

Gathered here are seven pairs of essays written over the course of three decades as lectures in congresses, chapters of books, or academic speeches. What they have in common is a certain ambition to give a wide view, in some cases of the intellectual and aesthetic environment of architecture, and in others of the works or cities that have shaped the architectural debate in the past third-of-a-century. The first pair describes the artistic climate during the year of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the second, a few years later, explores attitudes to mass culture; the third summarizes a handful of Spanish building works at the close of the 20st century, and the fourth does the same for the international scene; the fifth documents the moment of architecture and the city at the start of the 21st, and the sixth uses dialogues between images to suggest answers to unknowns looming at this transition; the seventh and last pair presents addresses read at ceremonies of induction into two Spanish academies; and the book closes with a lecture on the late style of writers and artists.

Collection ‘Balances’, 2023
Language: Spanish
Soft cover
208 pages