Eduardo Prieto   This book starts and ends with full-page photos deliberately out of focus. The buildings seem to be moving and leaving a trail of matter in their wake, like Boccioni sculptures. But it’s hard to find architectures with such a degree of precision as D

Eduardo Prieto   Among the heroines of architectural modernity, Eileen Gray was perhaps the most talented, but also the most slippery. Slippery because of her age: born in 1878 into Irish aristocracy, Gray was eight years younger than Loos but nine older than Le Corb

Eduardo Prieto   Ever since evolution gave the human being prehensile thumbs, humanity has left marks on the world. Many show its tendency to destroy, others its tendency to create. Humans leave marks in many ways, and drawing is one. Scratched on a cave wall, traced

Eduardo Prieto   To mention Richard Buckminster Fuller is to mention an amateur who wanted to change the world. It is to evoke the image of a visionary committed to the tiresome craft of surprising without respite, amazing without let-up. It is also to evoke the no l

Eduardo Prieto   One attribute of the genius is falling into oblivion. The temporary oblivion to which figures now gracing Olympus descended, from Velázquez to Lautréamont, Borromini to Tesla, and into which also dropped the two blurry architects that two recent book

Eduardo Prieto   “May you live in interesting times”: the curse that has fallen upon us resembles the one that befell Europeans in the 1930s. The 1937 Paris International Exposition was the last major cosmopolitan event held in Europe before the apocalypse, and desp

Eduardo Prieto   Rome, 35 ad. An epidemic strikes a city recently decked with marble monuments. A city, moreover, that has since time immemorial boasted the Cloaca Maxima, which Augustus had ordered cleaned, enlarged, tended to by a maintenance corps, and placed unde

Luis Fernández-Galiano   This environmental history deserves a plural name. The architect Eduardo Prieto has carved a 64-facet diamond to explore the ecology and climate dimension of building environment, and the result is a brilliant work that reflects his solid intellectua

Eduardo Prieto   South is not so much a cardinal direction as an idea. A rich and contradictory idea that has provided an outlet for certain longings of modern societies, such as the search for the essential and the ingenuous, or the vindication of supposed truths ab

Eduardo Prieto   The centenary of the Bauhaus has seen an outpouring of perspectives on the mythical school, endeavored to close any remaining historiographic gaps, and pushed readers to the brink of fatigue. It would be hard to count the lectures, seminars, celebrat

Eduardo Prieto   Many adjectives have been used to describe architectures that our contemporary world has built and continues to build, but which histories have excluded: ‘popular,’ ‘realist,’ ‘trivial,’ ‘conventional,’ capitalist,’ even ‘ugly.’ Such adjectives have

Eduardo Prieto   Madrid  2019  
Cátedra   - 444 Pages 

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