Sharp Words: Selected Essays of Dennis Sharp
By Louise NoellePhotos: Perimeter Books Commitment was the watchword of the life and work of Dennis Sharp, architect, professor, curator, editor, historian, and architecture critic. The range of activities to which he devoted himself clearly reveals this man’s deep-rooted passion, with a particular clarity of ideas and critical eloquence. In this sense the title of this […]
Valerie Fraser: Building the New World – Studies in the Modern Architecture of Latin America 1930-1960
Building the New World – Studies in the Modern Architecture of Latin America 1930-1960Valerie FraserVerso, London and New York, 2000 By Roberto Segre. Photo: Elba Gutiérrez/GuardianWitness Throughout the twentieth century, there were consecutive waves of passionate studies by First World scholars that aimed at rescuing Latin America’s contribution to the Modern Movement. Launched in the […]
Gulru Necipoglu: The Age of Sinan – Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire
The Age of Sinan – Architectural Culture in the Ottoman EmpireBy Gülru NecipogluReaktion Books, 2005, ISBN 1 86189 244 6 By Yasmin Shariff. Photo: 5Harfliler. Gülru Necipoglu has been the Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at Harvard University since 1993. Her book on Sinan is a complete contrast to the countless coffee table […]
Joseph Rykwert: The dancing column. On order in architecture
Joseph Rykwert: The dancing column. On order in architectureMIT Press, Cambridge, 1996 Por Louise Noelle. Fotografía: CCA Parafraseando el comentario inicial que hace Umberto Eco sobre este libro, podemos decir que, antes de conocer este trabajo, pensábamos que ya se había dicho todo sobre los órdenes arquitectónicos. Sin embargo, Joseph Rykwert aporta toda una nueva propuesta […]
Joseph Rykwert: La idea de ciudad
Joseph Rykwert: La idea de ciudadEdiciones Sígueme, Salamanca, 2002 Por Louise Noelle. Fotografía: Twinkling Lights / Unsplash Los problemas que aquejan a las actuales megalópolis, como la ciudad de México, nos han ido alejando de las reflexiones en torno a temas como el del presente libro: el origen de las ciudades. No se trata en […]