The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of ...
Continue Reading →“A volume of Adorno is equivalent to a whole shelf of books on literature.” —Susan Sontag A reflection on everyday existence in the ‘sphere of ...
Continue Reading →Treatise on digital architecture Hovestadt’s treatise strictly follows the model of the famous treatises by Vitruvius (De architectura) and Alberti (De re aedificatoria), based on ...
Continue Reading →The Northern Italian architect Vincenzo Scamozzi (1548-1616) completed a comprehensive study of ancient classical architecture, including the possibilities for its application in a modern context. ...
Continue Reading →A long-awaited reassessment of Andrea Palladio’s canonical villas that challenges widely accepted interpretations of the Renaissance architect’s work Many historians of architecture have viewed the ...
Continue Reading →Fondazione Prada presents Useless Bodies?, an exhibition by the artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset. Conceived for four gallery spaces and the courtyard of its Milan ...
Continue Reading →A panoramic survey of the vast spectrum of modern and contemporary mathematics and the new philosophical possibilities they suggest. A panoramic survey of the vast ...
Continue Reading →In the mold of his acclaimed History of Beauty, renowned cultural critic Umberto Eco’s On Ugliness is an exploration of the monstrous and the repellant ...
Continue Reading →Some parts of the world are dominated by communism, others by Catholicism or by Islam and yet others by liberal doctrines. Why should this be? ...
Continue Reading →How can a person from a Western culture enter into a way of thinking as different as that of the Chinese? Can a person truly ...
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