La Catedral de Jaén

Including a selection of scale models, sketches, computer models, photos, and prototypes of Guallart's most outstanding projects, such as the ports of Fugee and Keelung in Taiwan, the Artificial Mountain in Wroclaw, and the Sharing Tower in Sociopolis, this exhibition catalog provides a wide ranging survey of this talented architect. Betsky's essay labels Guallart's output as an emergent architecture, as he attempts to help architecture to emerge out of its surrounding conditions.

The phenomenological and social analysis of architecture and planning are not a new subject matter. However a set of new conditions made them interesting again. First the impact of Mikhail Bakhtin’s dialogical philosophy. We reproduce here the incredible text of the lecture in Barcelona (June 2013) by Michael Holquist, biographer, translator and the best worldwide expert of Bakhtin’s ideas and works. This lecture is a basic text in order to understand not only Bakhtin but also the cultural meaning of architecture as such. Second the tandem work by Steven Holl and Juhani Pallasmaa on the...

El estudio de las imágenes urbanas ofrece un campo muy rico de interpretaciones, porque analizándolas podriamos llegar a la elaboración de discursos sobre el poder y el conocimiento, sobre la ciencia, sobre el gusto, sobre lo imaginado y lo real, sobre la identidad y la alteridad, sobre el progreso, sobre la sociedad, o sobre la vida del ciudadano, por no citar lo inmediato, como son los signos de la grandeza urbana tal como se fueron definiendo entre los siglos XV y XVIII.

"Study of the work of architect Enrique Triana (b. Colombia) who began his work in the 1955. Triana has created some of the most noted buildings in Bogotá that include: Edificio Gibson and the Art Museum of the Banco de la República"--Provided by vendor.