Author: José Laborda Yneva (translated by John Francis Kinsella)
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About the Book:
Understanding Architecture is the work of José Laborda Yneva, renowned professor of architecture who taught at the Universities of Cartagena and Zaragoza, member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes in Spain. This book, translated and presented by John Francis Kinsella founder of Banksterbooks, describes the history of architecture, how it is taught, how before the advent of television and internet architecture was found on the street, as far as the eye could see where people could see and touch things as they liked. There were endless streets, all filled with visual and tactile models. Because, on the street, in addition to architecture and detail, is feeling, the certainty that one exists. It is not the same thing as the images on our screens, where it is impossible to smell things, where sounds are unreal, perspectives and lighting artificial. Architecture is not visible on screens, it cannot be touched, we do not know whether surfaces are smooth or textured, or how the elements interact with the structures, our screens do not take into account living people, an essential part of all architecture. Architecture as seen on a screen is abstract, unreal, a concept of its creator.