MMM did lots of things, but will be remembered as the engineer who executed the big urban projects that Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón launched as president of the Community of Madrid from 1995 to 2003 and as mayor of the city from 2003 to 2011. Of strong Ar
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.
The Bank of Spain has through an exhibition honored the architect who built its main office, a fine Madrid example of turn-of-the-century academicism…
Lumpen people wander the streets of the Quartiere Tuscolano; bicycles wheel from the borgate to the new working-class districts; a helicopter flies over the empty grounds of the Aqua Claudia transporting a Christ statue to St. Peter’s… Such scenes fr
Xenophon came to be highly popular among students of classical Greece because the simplicity of his language was perfect for translation exercises, perhaps in the same way that Julius Caesar’s Commentaries on the Gallic wars helped many of us learn t
The more famous a building is, the more it is wrapped in myths and clichés, and the more we gain from those who take pains to delve into its history. The Centre Pompidou (1971-1977) is one of the iconic constructions of the 20th century. It helped re
New readings inject sap into revered trunks. The British Academy and the Getty Research Institute have revisited two classics of art history, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, no doubt the masterwork of Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897), and T
Characterized by a heavy historical-artistic baggage, the career of the Burgos-born master was closely tied to the flourishing of the modern capital.
With his multifaceted work, which went far beyond the confines of construction, the eminent architect became one of the leading figures of the Renaixença.
Ptolemy, the Greek pharaoh of Egypt, ordered the building of the Mouseion of Alexandria in the year 280 BC, and in doing this, what he was inventing was not so much a place where erudites could come to study under the sponsorship of the State, but ra
Spain’s 20th century was convulsed. The Penguin History of Modern Spain, which goes from 1898 to the pandemic of 2020-2022, indeed describes an epoch that was troubled, but really not unlike that of other European countries. In what will be a referen
Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford, and his works have a dimension commensurate with his planetary themes. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (2015) was a bestseller which spread the world’s history onto zones like the C
The breach between the studies of art and architecture is discussed with the help of images by the professor and photographer Joaquín Bérchez.
The world changed on 24 February 2022, but the start of the war in Ukraine was produced by the tensions in the tectonic plate of Eurasia. There is no way to understand the conflict without knowing the history of Russia, nor without penetrating the he
The economic history of the last century portrays a period which was more marvelous than terrible, and throws light on humanity’s path toward individual freedom and material prosperity.
Does history serve architects? Often. If we assume that no architect who has made a significant contribution has ever been an analphabet, history has irrigated everyone’s thinking, being the object of literal interpretations, instrumental readings, o
“One must be absolutely modern.” Since the time Rimbaud wrote this intimidating phrase in 1873, we have been turning it around in our heads. Also in architecture, which was quick to equip itself with the instrument it needs to make good judgments on
In his preface José Manuel Sánchez Ron recalls the bitter words that Nicolas Masson de Morvilliers had to say about Spain in the Encyclopédie (“Qu’a t-elle fait pour l’Europe?”) and though he claims not to wish to mediate in controversy, his monument
When it was published in 2007, A Global History of Architecture promised to be the answer to a problem present in American architecture schools. While everyone agreed that the Western architectural canon was insufficient to train young architects, th
Demasiado afortunados para estar deprimidos se sienten Wouter Vanstiphout y sus colegas de Crimson, Ewout Dorman, Ernst van der Hoeven, Michelle Provoost y Cassandra Wilkins, un grupo atípico de historiadores y urbanistas, cuya erudición no les ha he
Los gases venenosos en la primera Guerra Mundial y los bombardeos urbanos en la segunda son antecedentes históricos de las formas del terror en un siglo que se inició con la devastación de Manhattan el 11-S, detonante de guerras libradas bajo la amen
Esta primera traducción castellana de la célebre obra de Auguste Choisy L’art de bâtir chez les Romains (1873) se suma a otros dos más que notables trabajos publicados en la misma colección: El arte de construir en Bizancio, también de Choisy, y La c
Este canon coral no es un canon pacífico. El catedrático Juan Antonio Ramírez ha reunido a un numeroso grupo de colaboradores para escribir una historia del arte renovada; y el resultado del empeño es una cartografía fresca y provocadora de un territ
David Escudero Aesthetics of Dwelling in Postwar Italy
Auguste Choisy
Madrid 1999
Instituto Juan de Herrera - 295 Pages
Juan Antonio Ramírez Historia del Arte
Juan Antonio Ramírez Historia del Arte
Juan Antonio Ramírez Historia del Arte
Juan Antonio Ramírez Historia del Arte
