Review on Archinect

“We forgot about buildings,” claims Dora Epstein Jones in this provocative essay for The Building, a new volume edited by José Aragüez and published by Lars Müller, featured here as part of Archinect’s recurring series Screen/Print.

Review in Arquitectura Viva

"This book focuses on a question of great importance in current architectural debate: how theory and practice relate to one another in contemporary architecture."

Review in Bauwelt

Interview on urbanNext

"urbanNext interviews José Aragüez on The Building, an international discursive project seeking to grow the domain of architectural thinking while producing conceptual frameworks whose influence extends beyond architecture."

Interview on urbanNext

Part II of interview w/ Nuria Moliner for urbanNext, discussing The Building in addition to infrastructure, change of program over time, disciplinary domains, educational models, and other questions central to architectural discourse.

Announcement on e-flux Architecture

"Many of the essential figures in the discursive scene worldwide contributed to this unprecedented volume with a view to propel architectural thinking to a new level of importance."

Section of introduction on urbanNext

"If the dominant approach driving architectural history and theory today concerns identifying novel subject matter, here instead the challenge involves taking up one of the discipline’s oldest themes and re-configuring it through the intellectual tools now at our disposal."

Review in El Croquis

Review by Douglas Spencer of Iowa State University

"These [Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project, or perhaps of Adorno’s engagement with Loos and functionalism, or of Kracauer’s essays on hotel lobbies or cinema interiors] show the possibilities of a thinking of, through and with architecture, of understanding architecture, including the thought of architecture, as mediated by the social, the economic, the cultural. At the same time they show how architecture recursively acts upon critical thought, enabling it to adapt sharpen and refine its capacities."