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Writings on Art
The first collection of Mark Rothko's writings, which range the entire span of his career While the collected writings of many major 20th-century artists, including Barnett Newman, Robert Motherwell, and Ad Reinhardt, have been published, Mark Rothko's writings have only recently come to light, beginning with the critically acclaimed The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art. Rothko's other written works have yet to be brought together into a major publication. Writings on Art fills this significant void; it includes some 90 documents--including short essays, letters, statements, and lectures--written by Rothko over the course of his career. The texts are fully annotated, and a chronology of...
Santiago de Compostela
El libro analiza de un modo sistemático la estructura fÃsica, los diferentes elementos de una sola gran obra de arquitectura que es la ciudad. El tÃtulo del libro alude a la voluntad de establecer una relación activa con los monumentos y los lugares del pasado, que nos permita reconocer los valores de la historia y apreciar su vigencia en el presente. Esta obra va dirigida no sólo a los estudiosos de la ciudad y de la arquitectura, sino también a todos los que aprecian la belleza y la ejemplaridad de Santiago, y les invita al recorrido y contemplación de la ciudad. Texto bilingüe, castellano-inglés. Resumen del Ãndice: Introducción.- La ciudad histórica como presente. Un recorrido por la arquitectura de Santiago.- Valor simbólico del espacio urbano medieval.- Estructuras claustrales: los espacios ocultos de Compostela.- Santiago 1600-1770. La metamorfosis barroca de un santuario de peregrinación.- La ciudad reconstruida en el siglo XIX.- Urbanismo es recuerdo. Reflexiones en torno a la reconstrucción crÃtica.- Intervenciones en la ciudad histórica.- La transformación urbanÃstica de la ciudad histórica de Santiago de Compostela. Apéndices.
The Therapeutic Power of the Maggie’s Centre
This book is about the therapeutic environment of the Maggie’s centre and explores the many ways this is achieved. With an unconventional architecture as required by the design brief, combined with Maggie’s psychological support programme, this special health facility allows extraordinary therapeutic effects in people, to the point that one can speak of therapeutic power. After tracing the story of the Maggie’s centre, the book reveals its fundamentals: Maggie’s Therapeutikos (the-mind-as-important-as-the-body), the Architectural Brief and the ‘Client-Architect-Users’ Triad. It continues by unfolding Maggie’s synergy-that between people and place-which increases users’ psycho...
Medieval Urban Planning
Broadly defined, urban planning today is a process one might describe as half design and half social engineering. It considers not only the aesthetic and visual product, but also the economic, political, and social implications, as well as the environmental impact. This collection of essays explores the question of whether this sort of multifaceted planning took place in the Middle Ages, and how it manifested itself outside of the monastic realm. Bringing together the monastic historian and archaeologist, with scholars of art and architecture, this volume expands our comprehension of how those in roles of authority saw the planning process and implemented their plans to structure a particular outcome. The examination of architectural complexes, literary sources, commercial legers, and political records highlights the multiple avenues for viewing the growing awareness of the social potential of an urban environment.
Design of the Unfinished
The book aims to provide city administrators and planners with a tool to accompany them in experimenting with the regeneration of no longer used parts of the built heritage, called leftovers, by adopting an innovative approach. A new and radically different form of project, with the task of proposing a new aesthetic code and a style of thought aimed at creating shelters for nomads of the third millennium. In the design field, the 21st century will be destined to measure itself against temporariness and precariousness, also in terms of aesthetic practices. Based on this hypothesis, the text identifies the design of the unfinished as the perspective for attributing to the leftovers a character, which is representative of the conditions of the just begun century. Through a transdisciplinary, exhibition-like and reversible approach, the elements of degradation of the existing work are welcomed in the project as a "gift", to be translated into a syntax aimed at giving form and meaning to the internal and external environments, with the inclusion of "additional components".
Spaces in-between
Spaces in-between goes beyond the emphasis on externalities signalled by the term ‘environment’ to address the isolation of modern technological culture from nature. Solutions require more than an awareness of ‘natural surroundings’ and human destructiveness. We think in terms of the re-conceptualization, re-design and re-negotiation of space. The book is concerned with social practices, belief systems, urban designs, the organization and representation of landscapes and modes of living. These aspects of ‘spatiality’ suggest how to conceive and practice the intermingling of nature and culture and how to develop public commitment to such practices. In the process we show how concern for the environment as an aspect of space helps us to reconceive and reinterpret what it means to be human.
Aproximaciones
Durante los años de cátedra universitaria el autor ha realizado un buen numero de investigaciones y estudios que, en algunos casos, han derivado también en artÃculos y ensayos breves que aquà se presentan. Este libro es el resultado de una recopilación realizada a lo largo de diecinueve años de diversas revistas de arquitectura, urbanismo, construcción y algunos diarios. Esta obra resume en buena parte el pensamiento arquitectónico del autor y sus preocupaciones generales sobre la arquitectura y su practica asà como relación entre el poder y la realidad y sus contradicciones; también está presente en estas páginas algo de la tozudez y de la necedad que algunos autores reclaman como indispensables para cambiar el estado actual de las cosas.
Bibliography of Semiotics, 1975-1985
This bibliography of semiotic studies covering the years 1975-1985 impressively reveals the world-wide intensification in the field. During this decade, national semiotic societies have been founded allover the world; a great number of international, national, and local semiotic conferences have taken place; the number of periodicals and book series devoted to semiotics has increased as has the number of books and dissertations in the field. This bibliography is the result of a dedicated effort to approach complete coverage.
Silencios elocuentes
A medida que el turbulento siglo XX se aproxima a su fin, va creciendo la importancia de un punado de obras y de artifices que, habiendo hundido en el sus raices, han cultivado la poetica del silencio y han sido capaces de interpretar, a traves de ella, la realidad caotica y huidiza de nuestra epoca. Al intento de desentranar algunas claves de esa poetica del silencio van destinadas estas paginas. El texto se estructura a partir de cinco breves estudios sobre otros tantos artistas contemporaneos que han hecho del silencio un ingrediente sustancial de su obra: Jorge Luis Borges, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Yasuhiro Ozu, Mark Rothko y Jorge Oteiza. Mas alla de las importantes diferencias geograficas y culturales que les separan, hay un rasgo comun en la obra de estos cinco maestros: el rechazo del arte entendido como una histerica agresion a los sentidos que la pseudocultura mediatica promueve y la afirmacion del arte como contemplacion, como introspeccion destinada a desvelar el misterio del mundo.
Carlos Martà ArÃs: pensamiento y arquitectura
El propósito de este texto es fomentar un debate intelectual sobre las ideas y enseñanzas inspiradas por la figura de Carlos Martà ArÃs en sus facetas como crÃtico, divulgador, profesor, editor y proyectista. No se trata solo de evocar la figura de la persona, sino de alimentar sus incursiones crÃticas y prácticas, asà como todas las disyuntivas que dejó abiertas para la discusión, en lugar de cerrarlas. Se muestra una actividad intelectual que nos invita a entablar un diálogo desde el presente y nos sirve como herramienta para comprender el futuro. Se pretende reflexionar sobre la influencia de ciertos temas tanto teóricos como prácticos —operativos, como él mismo afirmabaâ€...
