This first book in Castells' groundbreaking trilogy, with a substantial new preface, highlights the economic and social dynamics of the information age and shows how the network society has now fully risen on a global scale. Groundbreaking volume on the…
The Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture is an enlarged version of the Spanish edition and seeks, as its predecessor, to identify a new architectural will and a new social and cultural panorama. It aims to contribute to forming a vision…
Animate Form is a book and interactive CD-ROM of recent architectural projects designed by Form, the office of Greg Lynn. The projects documented here explore the potential of time-based animation techniques to inform architectural design. Historically, architecture has been considered…
In the movie “Only Lovers left Alive” (2013) two vampires live in Detroit in a constant situation of danger, therefore they can still perceived the beauty of the environment around them and rejoice from the dramatic and gothic context. In…
The topic of my lecture is Adaptation and, first of all, I want to go strict to the dictionary and compare this concept with the meaning of Resilience. Resilience is the power or ability to return to the original…
In the last years the biggest change is the influence of technology in our society. Also communication and community change. Now they don’t need their own place, people could be connected remotely without a place of connection. We moved from…
The world resilience is becoming more and more popular today. The importance of the concept is due to the sense of urgency of this historical, dramatic moment. A few recent examples are Fukushima tsunami and nuclear disaster (March 11, 2011);…
II will talk about Resilience and Infrastructures of public space in Madrid. The restoration of Rio Manzanares, the main river in the city of Madrid, started in 2005. The main part of the project was developed until 2011, but the…
In contemporary age urbanisation is growing increasingly. How do rural and urban lifestyles and settlement areas influence each other? Can a global back country develop via rural fringes, country pioneers, and local energies? Which spatial structures and methods prevail in…
Italo Calvino, in his book of 1988, LezioniAmericane, wrote six memos for the 21th century, including in the list: Lightness, Quickness, Exactitude, Visibility, Multiplicity, and Consistency. Saying the contradictions of contemporary life, these are the key questions for the creation…