Simon Ungers

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Escrito en Montreal recoge una muestra del trabajo de los estudiantes del seminario de posgrado Critical Writing (Escritura Crítica) que enseña el Profesor Ricardo L. Castro en la Escuela de Arquitectura de McGill University, sobre temas de escritura en arquitectura, especialmente narrativa de, y sobre, lugar. La ciudad de Montreal ha sido consistentemente el lugar a explorar. El trabajo de los participantes del seminario, que corresponde al semestre de otoño de 2013, combina experiencia de lugar con reflexiones teóricas e históricas sobre lugares urbanos. Los ensayos cortos de los...

An architecture school celebrates its 10th anniversary by publishing representative student work, but concerned with how readers often fail to acknowledge and ultimately disregard the relevance of student ideas, reducing them to mere image-making. Instead of listing projects by type or name, it was decided they would be presented in question format (bilingually), underlining the importance of inquiry over image. Question entries numbered from 1 to 100 (grouped by theme) predetermined the books format. Elegance (it is about architecture) and informality (but also about students) had to be...

Mirar la Arquitectura desde fuera de la Arquitectura.... La Historia de la Arquitectura habita en el un Centro comercial... Hoy podemos acceder a toda la Historia de la Arquitectura con un simple clic... Construir suen~os... Los tiempos hoy reclaman ma ́s emocio ́n y menos informacio ́n... El Proyecto Arquitecto ́nico hoy es la Estacio ́n Espacial Internacional....La Metaciudad actual es un cyborg de escala planetaria... la Arquitectura del presente es li ́quida y fluctuante como el Universo... Se persigue un doble objetivo: reflexionar sobre esta nueva e inevitable evolucio ́n, de la...