Grupo de investigación en teoría, historia, análisis y crítica de arquitectura

Research group on theory, history, analysis, and criticism of architecture

Entradas / Entries

  • Passing protagonists

    The architectural guidebook, as the publishing format in its current form, was born in interwar Germany with Neues Bauen in Berlin (Heinz Johannes, 1931); the second work of this kind, New sights of London (Hugh Casson, 1938) came a few…

  • Between the law and the traza

    This article presents new visual and historiographical contributions regarding the 1570 foundational traza of Mancha Real, conserved at Granada’s Royal Chancery Archive as the single surviving graphic document from the new settlement project executed by the Castilian crown in Jaen’s Sierra Sur…

  • Graphic Humor as a Tool for Criticism

    Between 1948 and 1958, when Carlos de Miguel assumed the role of editor at Revista Nacional de Arquitectura, a series of cartoons that approached architecture through graphic humour began to appear in its pages. Among the most notable authors were important…

  • How Buildings Relate

    In recent years, architectural interactions have become the center of many important reflections. However, there is little agreement on the subject. Some authors consider architecture to be about its relations with human and nonhuman agents. Others consider that buildings have…

  • Discontinuity and multiplication

    While the classic works on flexibility in housing have focused on defining the meaning of this idea and on the study of the design tools required to achieve it, the matter of its graphic representation has not yet been addressed…

  • The drawings of a forgotten house

    This article brings to light and examines the original drawings of the Davies House (Woodside, California; 1940–1941), the first work by Anshen & Allen, preserved in the Environmental Design Archives at UC Berkeley. The analysis of this previously unpublished corpus…