The ideas of Vitruvius have been questioned for some time. The figure inscribed within a perfect geometry sums up the worldview that since Leonardo has kept the human being at the center of existence, but on a planet of increasing degradation and ine
“Architecture is not about space, nor about containment,” writes Andrés Jaque. “It is not possible for architecture to spatially contain the transscalar societal compositions where life, politics, knowledge, and interactions happen.” Many have looked
Every avant-garde recognizes itself in modernity, but not all modernity recognizes itself in avant-gardes: thus starts an ‘aesthetic essay’ that explains the complex, often contradictory tenets that gave rise to artistic modernity. ‘Aesthetic essay’
At last we can enjoy a book by one of the most active Madrid architects of the generation born in the 1970s. We welcome what could be a renewed interest in architectural essays, and the optimism triggered by the book’s coinciding with the consolidati
Here is a renewed ‘manual,’ as intentional as it is flexible, structured into thematic essays on episodes that have been instrumental in shaping the city and urban landscapes. In the foreword Rafael Moneo explains that “the editors’ selection of argu
Andreas Malm El auge del vapor y las raíces del calentamiento global
Bill Gates The solutions we have and the breakthroughs we need
Niall Ferguson The Politics of Catastrophe
Elizabeth Kolbert Cómo los humanos estamos creando la naturaleza del futuro
Michael Shellenberger Por qué el alarmismo medioambiental nos perjudica a todos
Santiago de Molina
Madrid 2021
Ediciones Asimétricas - 152 Pages
Luis Martínez Santa-María
Barcelona 2021
Fundación Mies van der Rohe - 202 Pages
Richard Sennett Pablo Sendra Experimentos y disrupciones en la ciudad
Julia Ramírez-Blanco El tiempo de las plazas
Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation
Nueva York 2020
Columbia University Press - 512 Pages
Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation Marina Otero Lucia Pietroiusti (ed.)
2020
Het Nieuwe Instituut - 500 Pages
