Absolute Beginners (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783038602873)

Iki ﾁbalos presents the quintessence of his thinking about architecture and the future of the trade.

In his new book Absolute Beginners, acclaimed Spanish architect Iki ﾁbalos explores forms of innovation in architecture. Drawing on diverse materials elaborated during the twenty years since the publication of his best-known book, The Good Life, ﾁbalos examines questions centered on how and why architectural creation--at least the kind that arouses the greatest cultural interest--is strongly linked to philosophical thought, especially to the essay and the aphorism. He guides us to an understanding of why innovation--as happens in philosophy--is inextricably linked to reflection on the past and to the emergence of new ways of appropriating old problems.

Absolute Beginners is a single essay written with effort and passion, made for the pure pleasure of composing a new and complex work and understanding the source materials as necessary fragments while remaining open to adjustments, changes, and bridges between them. ﾁbalos organizes his materials like a piece of music into a cohesive composition, to the delight and insight of his readers.

Author: Iki ﾁbalos
ISBN-10: 3038602876
ISBN-13: 9783038602873
Publisher: Park Publishing (WI)
Language: English
Published: 02/21/2023
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 8.58h x 6.54w x 0.79d