Beatriz Colomina   America had been quite hostile to the ideas of the European architectural avant-garde. But for a relatively brief period, the space of about five years following the end of World War II, it embraced modem architecture. It wasn’t, as with the famous I

Kenneth Frampton   Among the architects of his generation Wright was renowned not only for his exceptional talent as an architect but also for the prescience of his thought. Despite his penchant for the Wagnerian gesture he never lost his feeling for the reality of pro

Martin Filler   Perhaps Louis Kahn’s most daring accomplishment was wresting American architecture from the bland conformity that International Style had condemned it to. As Martin Filler explains in the following run-through of the life and work of the master from

Andrés Duany   Pragmatism is one of the features of American culture that have traditionally most been pointed out as distinguishing it from European culture, and yet is precisely what Andres Duany appreciates in the work of Oscar Tusquets and team: that practical

Dolores Hayden   Aunque no es un fenómeno reciente, el hecho de hacer recaer sobre una mítica felicidad domestica la responsabilidad de la armonía social puede presentarse holgadamente como la utopía de nuestro tiempo. Desde una óptica feminista, Dolores Hayden propo

Bernard Tschumi Matthew Berman   Cambridge (Mass)  2003  
MIT Press   - 302 Pages