Floating Gardens in the Urban Landscape Victor Rivera-Diaz Urban agriculture has been the focus of many metropoleis around the world as a way to reintroduce the right to the city in tandem with the land. These initiatives, while covering an extensive range of methods and possibilities, come up against a common snag: the negotiation […]
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Floating Gardens in the Urban Landscape
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Projective Aesthetics as a New Discourse
Projective Aesthetics as a New Discourse Boris Orlov Today’s situation in aesthetics seems to be problematic. The former methodologies such as Analytics, Systematics, Hermeneutics, Deconstruction, etc. still exist, but fail to grasp current changes in culture and art. Besides assessment, these challenges of our time need a new theoretical vision with a practical orientation. […]
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Material Matters
Material Matters Mary Bittner Wiseman In Vers une Architecture (1923), Le Corbusier said: “…cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders or pyramids are the great primary forms which light reveals to advantage; the images of these is distinct and tangible within us and without ambiguity. It is for this reason that these are beautiful forms, the most beautiful […]
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Revolution and Aesthetics
Revolution and Aesthetics Nicholas Romanos One of the revolutionary movements with the highest profile today operates not so much on a political level, as has been common in the past, as on a planetary one. “Extinction Rebellion,” as this environmental protest group calls itself, has a uniquely striking and consistently applied aesthetic, from the […]