The Construction of the Metropolis
Madrid celebrates the 150th birth anniversary of the architect who built many of the projects that gave the city its image as a modern metropolis.
(Porriño, 1874 - El Plantío, 1945)
Madrid celebrates the 150th birth anniversary of the architect who built many of the projects that gave the city its image as a modern metropolis.
Mastership too comes in tones. Although our late-romantic upbringing makes us prefer major masters, minor masters are more interesting when it is times, not so much persons, that we wish to comprehend. Lacking ego, minor masters are better at strikin
En el Congreso Nacional que se celebraba en San Sebastián en 1915, dos arquitectos protagonizaban, con su ponencia ‘Orientaciones para el resurgimiento de una Arquitectura Nacional’, un debate sobre los derroteros que debía seguir la nueva arquitectu
Harold Bloom maintains that critical judgment boils down to better, worse, or equal. What if we were to apply such criteria to the match between Madrid and Barcelona? At the risk of charicaturizing, here are some nasty comparisons. Cerdá or Arturo So