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The Conservation Movement
Shortlisted for the 2014 SAHGB Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion. Certainly, ancient structures have long been treated with care and reverence in many societies, including classical Rome and Greece. But only in modern Europe and America, in the last two centuries, has this care been elaborated and energised into a forceful, dynamic ideology: a 'Conservation Movement', infused with a sense of historical destiny and loss, that paradoxically shared many of the characteristics of Enlightenment modernity. Miles Glendinning's new book authoritatively presents, for the first time, the entire history of architectural conservation, and traces its dramatic fluctuations in ideas and popularity, ending by questioning whether its recent international ascendancy can last indefinitely.
Five Minutes City
Winy Maas proposed a provocative and inspiring brief; he asked participants to redesign the cities of Rotterdam and New York in a way that everything is reachable within five minutes. A series of serious questions arise from the challenging brief: 'What will such a city look like? What happens to such an hypothesis if cars are the only mode of transport? What will such a city look like when it is only accessed by public transport? Or by walking?' How one can extend the knowledge of compact or dense cities? How fast cities can be? Is increased speed an ideal concept for future cities? Is development of new infrastructure sustainable for cities in future? Can Rotterdam become such a city? Is it possible to upscale Manhattan? How does mobility affects the working and living qualities of the cities and how is mobility shaping cities?
Logics of Evolution for the Contemporary Contexts
A collection of installments compiling the works of the students of the Master in Integrated Architectural Design during the academic year 2020/21. The course is organized in 5 logics: environmental, social, digital, tectonic and cultural through which the students explore how architectural design can adapt to the context in which they operate. This collection of installments compiles the works of the students of the Master in Integrated Architectural Design during the academic year 2020/21. The program objectives are to promote innovative architectural design integrated with the wide range of skills on technical and cultural knowledge that contemporary architecture demands. The course is or...
Multiple Messengers and Challenges in Astroparticle Physics
This book, designed as a tool for young researchers and graduate students, reviews the main open problems and research lines in various fields of astroparticle physics: cosmic rays, gamma rays, neutrinos, cosmology, and gravitational physics. The opening section discusses cosmic rays of both galactic and extragalactic origin, examining experimental results, theoretical models, and possible future developments. The basics of gamma-ray astronomy are then described, including the detection methods and techniques. Galactic and extragalactic aspects of the field are addressed in the light of recent discoveries with space-borne and ground-based detectors. The review of neutrinos outlines the statu...
Architectures of Hiding
Architecture manifests as a space of concealment and unconcealment, lethe and alêtheia, enclosure and disclosure, where its making and agency are both hidden and revealed. With an urgency to amplify narratives that are overlooked, silenced and unacknowledged in and by architectural spaces, histories and theories, this book contends the need for a critical study of hiding in the context of architectural processes. It urges the understanding of inherent opportunities, power structures and covert strategies, whether socio-cultural, geo-political, environmental or economic, as they are related to their hidescapes – the constructed landscapes of our built environments participating in the arch...
Cámara y modelo
"The current show, Modelling for the Camera. Photography of Architectural Models in Spain 1925-1970, is a continuation of previous research initiatives implemented as part of the Photography and Modern Architecture in Spain (FAME) project under its principal researcher and curator, the architect and professor Iñaki Bergera. Held within the framework of PHotoEspaña 2016 at the exhibition rooms under the arches of the New Ministries in Madrid"--Verso of title page.
Cultural Praxis for a Transmedia Architecture
This booklet offers a comprehensive overview of the seminar Cultural Praxis for a Transmedia Architecture, organized by the research group Architectural Logics for Emerging Contexts (ALEC) from the Architecture School of La Salle Campus Barcelona (ETSALS). The seminar investigates the deep relationship between architecture and culture, emphasizing architecture's role not only as a cultural artifact but also as a lens through which social, political, and environmental aspects of society are illuminated. Included are exclusive essays by Ivan Blasi, Director of Programs at Fundació Mies van der Rohe, and Elvira Dyangani Ose, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA), both of whom explore the specific context of Barcelona. Additionally, the booklet expands on architectural culture at a global level through the works of Lydia Kallipoliti and the curatorial project for the Barcelona UIA 2026. Contributions from bachelor's, master's, and PhD students further enrich the discussion by examining the cultural dimension of architecture through academic and research-based lenses.
La paradoja de Mies
La simetría, en su condición clásica, se ha dado a lo largo de la historia como constructora de orden. Como término ampliado, es clave en el entendimiento operativo del espacio moderno. El vínculo de Mies va der Rohe con esta estrategia es fundamental y va más allá de su pretendida invisibilidad. Una aproximación a este concepto se da a través de una de sus obras más importantes: el Pabellón Alemán para la Exposición Universal de 1.929 en Barcelona que representó para la modernidad la culminación de una década que cambió radicalmente la visión de la arquitectura gracias al carácter inclusivo de lo paradójico y las innumerables conexiones que hubo entre el arte y la cienci...
Catedral Santa Creu Temple Hèrcules
Pels molts anys que Pep Vallès ha exercit brillantment la crítica a la premsa barcelonina la seva renúncia, quasi diria hostilitat envers el que s’anomenen parts invariables de l’oració. Preposicions i conjuncions són, per ell, mots sobrers. Una mena de noses que, prèviament i emperarivament, deixa desades –més ben dit abandonades– dins la cambra dels mals endreços. Rafael Santos Rorr oella - Tàpies emprempta, 1973 Pep Vallès és un lúcid arrauxat. Potser és la rauxa que el fa lúcid o, potser és la lucidesa que el fa arrauxat. No ho sé. Però sí que.. ha volgut dir moltes coses i les diu servint-se d’un sistema de comunicació que obliga a qui l’escolta a llegir-lo atentament amb paciència i pensant cadascuna de les paraules escrites. Arnau Puig, 1973 Vallès empra un llenguatge de recerca que empra des dels anys setanta: una manera de fer a cavall entre l’escriptura d’un Jean Echenoz i els sms dels mòbils. Bon Art. Girona. Ricard Planas, 2010 “Abans no sabia llegir-te, ara no puc llegir-te d’altra manera”. Antoni Tàpies, 1973
