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UNBUILT INTENTIONS: towards a new phenomenology of cities and architecture
After six years of hard work, we are happy to announce the publication of Jaime Correa’s book “UNBUILT INTENTION: towards a new...
Jaime Correa
Dec 11, 20201 min read
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REDACTED DISTILLATIONS: Le Corbusier’s transformative erasures
We are very happy to announce the publication of Jaime Correa’s book “REDACTED DISTILLATIONS: Le Corbusier’s transformative erasures”....
Jaime Correa
Dec 11, 20201 min read
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ARTISTIC ILLUSION: a human need
To live a happy life, we need illusion. From Hume, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Husserl we have learned that reality is...
Jaime Correa
Apr 9, 20201 min read
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MIND SEEDS: notes on language, representation, and meaning
IF a word does not stand for an object, it is meaningless. Every word should be a proposition; and, every proposition should have the...
Jaime Correa
Jul 14, 20196 min read
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VIA NEGATIVA: architecture is not just the art of building
An architecture devoid of ideas is seldom good architecture. Architecture should no longer be the slave of functional or financial...
Jaime Correa
Jul 11, 20191 min read
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TEACHING AS AN INTELLECTUAL PRACTICE: taking a stance
One of the most important responsibilities of any designer is the assumption of a defendable intellectual position. To be in practice...
Jaime Correa
Mar 25, 20192 min read
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7 DESIGN RULES: a small manifesto
These days, the word “crisis” is a popular qualifier within the disciplines of architecture and urbanism – partly because it makes the...
Jaime Correa
Feb 26, 20194 min read
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CHANGE AND IDENTITY: a meditation on the paradoxical world of cities
We regularly say that cities change over time and, as urbanists, we are quite aware that urban territories have no sharp boundaries....
Jaime Correa
Dec 13, 201810 min read
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SILENCE IS MY CHOICE: the new life of the "less is more" aphorism
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s maxim “less is more” has become the dictum of the new millennium. Borrowed from a poem by Robert Browing, and...
Jaime Correa
Sep 18, 20183 min read
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AGAINST INTELLECTUAL SLAVERY: a moral call to order
A commitment to a Paper Practice does not come without intellectual entanglements. A Paper Practice requires severing our ties with the...
Jaime Correa
Aug 20, 20183 min read
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PERSPECTIVE and PHOTO-REALISM ARE DEAD: long live post-digital representation
Since the proto-renaissance, artists and critics have worked under the assumption that making a faithful representation of any object...
Jaime Correa
Jul 9, 20184 min read
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REDEVELOPING WYNWOOD WALLS a capstone "charrette"
As part of the curricular requirements of the Master in Real Estate Development and Urbanism, at the University of Miami, Jaime Correa...
Jaime Correa
Jun 27, 20184 min read
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ALMOST NOTHING Mies Van Der Rohe and his "Three courtyards house"
Meant to depict Friedrich Nietzsche’s ideal of the super-human in a transparent urban society, this house by the German architect Mies...
Jaime Correa
Jun 23, 20181 min read
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ARE YOU A NEW URBANIST? Jaime Correa responds
Because of a social media post on Facebook, a few professional and academic colleagues as well as a few members of the Congress for the...
Jaime Correa
Jun 21, 20183 min read
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Reviewing the work of Lucien Steil
Jaime Correa's article was published by Detalles y Proyectos de Arquitectura in Spain The Spanish magazine DPArquitectura, directed and...
Jaime Correa
Jun 19, 20181 min read
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