Headquarters of China National Grand Theatre. Paul Andreu, 2007. Image: Randomwire, Flickr
The buildings have become very powerful propaganda weapons. In some cases, its very construction is a major event media, attracting the attention of very many people through media. Spectacular images broadcast surprising ways that are supposed to hold activities that generally are unknown and do not matter too.
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We present a series of excerpts chosen from book the same title published this year have teachers of Political Science and Economics Vicente Navarro, Juan Torres and Alberto Garzón. In a situation as serious as we are experiencing some reflections are relevant and necessary to have the power to go against the dominant thinking about in relation to the current situation of our country. By Rodrigo Vargas
“… in order to encourage their staff to work in the colonies, created for those willing to leave fabulous living conditions. The modest little post office clerk (…) received a villa with garden and pool, Car, servitude, European vacation, etc.. The colonial bureaucracy wore a really great life. " By Federico García Barba We live in times when the full limits of our habitat near and far have already found an accurate way. The planet has become so in a finite space that offers resources that are becoming scarce. Thus, the next step is to use what is available in the most effective and the least possible. It is because of this that the architecture of our time, today more than ever, must be an expression of austerity. By Federico García Barba
Michel Ecochard is one of those characters who have not received the attention they deserve in the historiography of contemporary architecture and urbanism. We know his work because of the presentation that take place in one of the last International Congress of Modern Architecture, which is held in Aix en Provence 1953. A personal reflection on what happened to the Spanish Architecture
The current European crisis, how hard has touched Spain, us think, again, on distances and similarities we have with the Motherland. By Federico García Barba
In Europe it is usually topical African vision, a continent of enormous natural wealth, with highly unequal societies and devastated by extreme poverty. Probably, is a reflection of our radical ignorance of the realities that actually exist in these countries. Surprisingly, and from stereotypes, There oasis of sophistication that are clearly related to local leadership groups and taste associated with the availability of a lot of money. |
  
                        
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