Jaime Correa
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...
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Jaime Correa
- Dec 11, 2020
- 1 min
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”....
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Jaime Correa
- Apr 9, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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Jaime Correa
- Jul 14, 2019
- 6 min
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...
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Jaime Correa
- Jul 11, 2019
- 1 min
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...
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Jaime Correa
- Mar 25, 2019
- 2 min
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...
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Jaime Correa
- Feb 26, 2019
- 4 min
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...
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Jaime Correa
- Dec 13, 2018
- 10 min
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....
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Jaime Correa
- Sep 18, 2018
- 3 min
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...
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Jaime Correa
- Aug 20, 2018
- 3 min
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...
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Jaime Correa
- Jul 9, 2018
- 4 min
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...
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Jaime Correa
- Jun 27, 2018
- 4 min
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...
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Jaime Correa
- Jun 23, 2018
- 1 min
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...
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Jaime Correa
- Jun 21, 2018
- 3 min
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...
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Jaime Correa
- Jun 19, 2018
- 1 min
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...
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