Monuments molt: they change skin, change image, and change meaning. As living heritage, they renew their renders and their walls, transform their outer appearance, and modify their symbolic content; and as vulnerable heritage, they experience decaden
This book is based on the view of Modern Movement works as historical buildings having attributes that blend them with monuments of a previous past, and offers a synthetic, documented, critical assessment of the restorations to which these works have
Why reopen the first historiography of architecture? What for? Every new study of histories must be seen as a continuation of previous ones, and this book is a case in point. In the wake of the ‘structuralist’ revision of The Historiography of Modern
‘Espacio’ y ‘público’ son dos términos comunes; tanto que la suma de ambos parece ya una expresión gastada, incluso banal. George Baird, arquitecto y crítico canadiense, se esfuerza en demostrar lo contrario. Su empeño acaso esté justificado si se ti
