In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principles ...
Continue Reading →Few twentieth-century writers on architecture and design have enjoyed the renown of Reyner Banham. Born and trained in England and a U.S. resident ...
Continue Reading →Architecture from the fifteenth century to the present has been under the influence of three “fictions.” Notwithstanding the apparent succession of architectural styles, ...
Continue Reading →After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a major statement in the ...
Continue Reading →Neoliberalism as a wealth redistribution imperative has made property ownership impossible or unprofitable for much of society. Whether in the form of mortgages ...
Continue Reading →For Pier Vittorio Aureli, the return of “austerity chic” is a perversion of what ought to be a meaningful way of life. Charting ...
Continue Reading →Leo Allatius was a Greek scholar, theologian, and keeper of the Vatican library.His works are listed by Johann Albert Fabricius, in Bibliotheca Graeca (xi. 437), ...
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