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

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

Entradas / Entries

  • The Davies House: Anshen and Allen Before Eichler

    Completed in Woodside on November 30, 1941, just seven days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Davies House was the first built work of the young San Francisco architects Robert Anshen and Stephen Allen. More than eighty years later,…

  • From display to content.OMA, architecture and mass media

    Architecture is, according to Renato de Fusco, a logotechnics, «a system composed of functions and signs that, in addition to fulfilling a specific purpose, also serves as a means of communication between social groups».1 Enunciated more than fifty years ago at the…

  • Dialogues on the Global within and beyond Australasia

    As often happens in academia, our research project originated with an unsuccessful fellowship application. And yet, if our proposal to address Australasian perspectives on architectural history had no luck as a fellowship proposal, the project took on new life as…

  • 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…