Building and Dwelling (Penguin Books, 2018)   Richard Sennett   The words ‘resilience’ and ‘sustainability’ are clichés which dominate urbanism today. Everyone is for them, whatever they mean: the United Nations, the Rockefeller Foundation, the builders of Masdar, indeed most builders, tout the pair to legitimate

Richard Sennett   When they are misused, digital media can come to separate human knowledge from the manual, direct, and repetition-based learning on which the crafts have always been founded.

José María Ezquiaga   The value of the book lies mainly in how it considers the dwelling an essential component of the city, and in how it proposes a reading of the city from the angle of its residential fabrics. It is a mature, synthetic reflection that compiles the best

Eduardo Prieto   Two centuries ago, Immanuel Kant observed, almost in passing, that "the hand is the window of the mind". Modern science has tried to confirm this fruitful idea, as has art and, in many ways, architecture as well. But while for the former the study of

Adela García-Herrera   El historiador Joseph Rykwert recordará siempre la primavera de 1996: apareció su libro The Dancing Column y recibió un caluroso homenaje de colegas y discípulos en su 75 cumpleaños. Dicho homenaje, celebrado en la Universidad de Pensilvania, consist

Richard Sennett Pablo Sendra   Experimentos y disrupciones en la ciudad

Richard Sennett   Madrid  2010  
Editorial Anagrama   - 416 Pages 

Cambridge (Mass)  2002  
MIT Press   - 428 Pages