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Grace and GravityArchitectures of the Figure
How do we live well? The first sentence of Grace and Gravity raises the fundamental question that constantly occupies our minds-and of all those who lived before us. Paradoxically, the impossibility of answering this question opens up the very room needed to find ways of living well. It is the gap where all disciplines fall short, where architecture does not fit its inhabitants, where economy i…
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L'architettura del continuo
Lars Spuybroek ridisegna le nozioni di percezione, corpo e spazio «Non è forse vero che noi architetti siamo addestrati a pianificare i movimenti per poi estruderli in un secondo momento per creare un’immagine? Non siamo forse addestrati a disegnare prima le piante, la superficie dell’azione, per poi estruderle per dar vita agli alzati, le superfici della percezione? No…
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The Sympathy of ThingsRuskin and the Ecology of Design
'If there is one thing we can learn from John Ruskin, it is that each age must find its own way to beauty' writes Lars Spuybroek in The Sympathy of Things, his ground-breaking work which proposes a radical new aesthetics for the digital era. Spuybroek argues that we must 'undo' the twentieth century and learn to understand the aesthetic insights of the nineteenth-century art critic John Ruskin,…
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