To live a happy life, we need illusion. From Hume, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Husserl we have learned that reality is elus...

IF a word does not stand for an object, it is meaningless. Every word should be a proposition; and, every proposition should have the pow...

An architecture devoid of ideas is seldom good architecture. Architecture should no longer be the slave of functional or financial requir...

One of the most important responsibilities of any designer is the assumption of a defendable intellectual position. To be in practice jus...

These days, the word “crisis” is a popular qualifier within the disciplines of architecture and urbanism – partly because it makes the ad...

We regularly say that cities change over time and, as urbanists, we are quite aware that urban territories have no sharp boundaries. Give...

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 ...

A commitment to a Paper Practice does not come without intellectual entanglements. A Paper Practice requires severing our ties with the w...

Since the proto-renaissance, artists and critics have worked under the assumption that making a faithful representation of any object mea...

As part of the curricular requirements of the Master in Real Estate Development and Urbanism, at the University of Miami, Jaime Correa wa...

Meant to depict Friedrich Nietzsche’s ideal of the super-human in a transparent urban society, this house by the German architect Mies Va...

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 N...

Jaime Correa's article was published by Detalles y Proyectos de Arquitectura in Spain The Spanish magazine DPArquitectura, directed and e...