In this panoramic overview of the history of art and architecture during the 19th and 20th centuries, the site of interpretation is configured as an intersection of disparate motifs: a true network in which potential histories multiply, never able to reach a totalizing synthesis. History as a "problem" thus becomes a critical journey.

Manuel Corrada holds a degree in Mathematics from the University of Chile. He is a researcher in logic, the metamathematics of set theory, Gödel’s methods, and Turing machines. He has published various scientific articles, as well as writings on design, perception, architecture, and book criticism.

The book "Industria y habitar colectivo. Conjuntos habitacionales en el sur de Chile" [Industry and Collective Living: Housing Complexes in Southern Chile], recently published by STOQ Editorial, emerges from an academic research project: "CONYCYT-PIA SOC.1403 Industrial Heritage: Forms of Collective Living in Southern Chile. Contributions to its Valorization and Integrated Recovery." The primary objective of this project was to understand the forms of collective living associated with housing complexes created by industry in the southern part of the country.

Adrian Forty, Professor Emeritus of Architectural History at UCL, presents two articles in this ARQDocs in which he precisely discusses, first, the use of the concept (and word) 'primitive' at different moments in the history of the discipline, and subsequently examines its dependency on the written word, extending and revising the conclusions of his book, 'Words and Buildings'.

Thomas Weaver is an architecture writer and editor. Having served as editor of AA Files for 10 years, he is currently a visiting professor at the Berlage Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Urban Design at TU Delft. In this ARQDocs volume, he presents the essays "Grimm the Modelmaker" and "Against Research."

The prominence of the natural landscape and the urban environment in suburban and urban settings is a defining factor in the design of these projects, revealing diverse emphases that offer distinct and compelling perspectives.

This book serves as the most comprehensive testament to the world of Milton Barragán Dumet as an architect. His architecture, which addresses timeless human themes, is considered among the most significant in Ecuador and Latin America. It acts as a visible and tangible link to the identity, symbolic creation, and unique aesthetic of its architect, as well as his vision of the city.

This book compiles the most significant texts written by Emilio Tuñón, selected from those published in the CIRCO MRT coop. bulletin. CIRCO was a unique, heterodox publication—now shrouded in myth—that was not for sale and was received monthly by mail by a select few (a few hundred, in reality), including the cream of the architectural intelligentsia.

The entire world is facing the consequences of an intense increase in urbanization and urban development speculation, but in the case of tourist destinations, this has even more extreme consequences: not only because the environmental resources at risk are the very reason for these places' popularity—and, by extension, their economic and identity value—but also due to the extremely temporary nature of many of the activities in these locations.Blanco

Do you struggle to understand the latest trends in contemporary architecture? Don't worry; few can navigate the landscape of buildings with glossy finishes or envelopes that appear to be in ruins. Moreover, it is difficult to grasp why buildings designed by renowned architects no longer reflect traditional standards of good composition or the Vitruvian triad: firmness, commodity, and delight. In fact, these buildings are often clad in gold leaf, incorporate gargantuan images, are covered in vegetation, or appear to hover above the ground.

Beatriz Colomina is the director and founder of the interdisciplinary Media and Modernity program at Princeton University in the United States, where she also serves as a professor and director of Graduate Studies at the School of Architecture.

“The machine is invented to respond to specific needs. Once in existence, the operator can far exceed its original capabilities: by breaking the rules imposed by the machine itself, creative results emerge that were unimagined before using the machine, before breaking its rules.”

As part of the implementation of a renovated public space in Villa El Salvador, Lima, a public call has been issued for artists, muralists, and the general public to participate, submit their designs, and apply to the Participatory Mural Competition. The winning design will be installed in the Edilberto Ramos area (VES).

Ideas Competitions: Design against war
New ideas competition on Desall: EMERGENCY, SOSDesign, and Desall invite you to design environments, products, and services to meet the needs and desires of daily life and care in territories affected by war.

Following the success of the 2017 Antalis Interior Design Award, which featured over 500 entries from 29 countries, Antalis is pleased to announce a new edition of the competition.

The XXI Chile Architecture and Urbanism Biennial invites students, architects, firms, institutions, publishers, and collectives to participate in the country's most significant event of its kind. This year, the event will focus on proposals geared toward the "everyday" public.

The purpose of this call is to create an artistic or expressive work that represents and gives form to the competition's interpretive scope.

The Mieres Polytechnic School of the University of Oviedo, through its Transport Engineering Department, is launching an international ideas competition for university students to solicit proposals for resolving an urban and territorial issue associated with the evolution of transport networks.