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The Homegrown CityReclaiming the Metropolis for its Users
Slums, informal settlements, and other unplanned habitats are seen as the antithesis of the metropolis. Matias Echanove and Rahul Srivastava, found?ers of the design practice urbz, explore how such neighbourhoods and their inhabitants have been unfairly dismissed when they should in fact be under-stood as partners in the story of cities and urban development.
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A Gift of AngelsThe Art of Mission San Xavier del Bac
It rises suddenly out of the Sonoran Desert landscape, towering over the tallest tree or cactus, a commanding building with a sensuous dome, elliptical vaults, and sturdy bell towers. There is nothing else like it around, nor does it seem there should be. This incongruity of setting is what strikes first-time visitors to Mission San Xavier del Bac. This great church is of another place and anot…
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Quel che resta dell'architetturaUn progetto storico
È pura utopia al giorno d'oggi pensare a un'architettura libera dal mercato? Se la risposta affermativa a tale domanda risulta essere perfettamente scontata, ciò comporta quale sua necessaria conseguenza la rinuncia dell'architettura a ogni ambizione utopica? Una resa cioè a quell'«estetica del consenso» dietro cui, con assillante inquietudine, già Vittorio Gregotti intravedeva lo «spett…
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Echoes in Perspective-Essays on Architecture
One could read the collection of essays herein as a political voice to architecture and the architecture profession, constantly gnawing away at the disciplinary, only to find favor in the imaginative, intellectually interesting and the creative. Beyond embodying a collection of thought on architecture and its discipline, the present collection of essays also serves as a not-so-veiled political …
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Jesús Anaya Rosique y Lourdes Uranga LópezIzquierdistas de toda la vida : d…
Las vidas de Jesús Anaya Rosique y Lourdes Uranga López son una ventana para adentrarnos en la historia de la guerra sucia en México a través de su memoria. En sus narraciones afloran el modo de recordar esa etapa de su vida, sus inquietudes, su forma de ver y concebir el mundo y hacen posible que conozcamos por qué, como tantos cientos de jóvenes, optaron por la vía armada para buscar u…
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Álamos, SonoraArchitecture and Urbanism in the Dry Tropics
The town of Álamos in the state of Sonora, Mexico, a one-day drive from the Arizona border, is one of the most intact colonial-era cities in northern Mexico. Álamos has been declared a National Historic Monument by the Mexican government and is one of only fourteen towns to be designated as Pueblos Mágicos. Founded by Spaniards who discovered silver deposits nearby, Álamos was a prosperous …
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Architecture of ControlA Contribution to the Critique of the Science of Appar…
Through six meditations on the ideology of architecture, Grant Vetter is able to give us an entirely new set of coordinates for understanding social control in the twenty-first century. Moving between historical precedents in the east and the west, Vetter's work reveals a hybrid order of architectural power that acts on subjectivity from within rather than without. Whether characterized as a pr…
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Mission San Xavier del BacA Guide to Its Iconography
Unique among mission churches of the northern borderlands of colonial Mexico for its ornate architecture and rich iconography, San Xavier del Bac south of Tucson is a pilgrimage destination for countless devotees and tourists. Passing through the façade entry to stand in the nave, one is dazzled by the transept and sanctuary altarpieces of sculpture niches and baroque pilasters, as well as the…
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Venturino VenturaTre declinazioni del linguaggio architettonico romano
Venturino Ventura è stato un interprete originale della modernità romana, rimasto a lungo ai margini della storiografia e del dibattito critico. Lontano dai clamori delle riviste e dal circuito accademico, ha contribuito in modo silenzioso ma decisivo a costruire l'immagine della città, muovendosi tra linguaggi diversi e sperimentando sempre nuovi equilibri tra i vincoli della professione e …
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Naufraghi metropolitani
I gabbiani che sorvolano Piazza Vittorio Emanuele fanno intendere che qualcosa è cambiato in città. Scendendo pochi gradini ci si può immergere in un microcosmo sotterraneo, dove il miraggio di un viaggio che in pochi minuti ci permetta di raggiungere un punto qualsiasi della città può trasformarsi, come tutti i viaggi, in un'avventura. Così, singoli episodi quotidiani vissuti all'interno…
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