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

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

One of the most important responsibilities of any designer is the assumption of a defendable intellectual position. To be in practice just for the sake of mo...

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

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

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 in the same spirit o...

A commitment to a Paper Practice does not come without intellectual entanglements. A Paper Practice requires severing our ties with the world and, as a conse...

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

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

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

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 New Urbanism (CNU), h...

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