Abel Fernández Villegas   A phantom advances across Europe, and along the way it stumbles upon serious difficulties to find accommodation. Housing is one of the problems that are besieging the Old Continent, immersed as it is in a residential crisis that threatens the very fo

Abel Fernández Villegas   From the time that Sigfried Giedion established his generational theory of Modernity – that major bang on the table that was determined to be a tabula rasa – the idea of heritage was ready to put in an appearance. As the discourse of Modernity over t

Abel Fernández Villegas   “Fixity is always momentary.” The line from Octavio Paz’s The Monkey Grammarian, a poetic pilgrimage to Galta, in the heart of Rajasthan, could serve as an introduction to this book by the architect and Harvard GSD professor Rahul Mehrotra, a compila

Abel Fernández Villegas   The history of modern architecture began with the demolition of long-held certainties. With foundations pushed away by enlightened ideas, architects went in search of a legitimizing principle for their discipline. The only certainty we can make out,

Abel Fernández Villegas   A fragment suffices to conjure the whole. The loose end instantly brings up the image of the moment, and everything falls in place. ‘Loose Ends’ is precisely the title under which Carlos Martí Arís has gathered various writings in a book. The work in