The Institute of the Arab World (IMA), by Jean Nouvel, is a work that continues the line of the so-called high-tech buildings, whose links do not remain only in those aspects that embrace the good and perfect art of building of an era, but find their raison d'être in the formal use of technology. In this sense we must bear in mind the type of commission to which they respond, umbilically linked to economic, social and, ultimately, state power, which gives them to a large extent a particular understanding of the building whose values must be understood in themselves, marginalizing the classical relations with the place...[+]