To ask questions is a motif; to search for answers is a process that negotiates variables between various points of reference. DOMA, which translates from the Macedonian language as house …
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Weltbauen: Territory and the Architectural Imaginary
“The spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers the world.“1 Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche In the nineteenth century, the …
A Close Reading: Architecture of Revolution
The “Architecture of Revolution” of the Krushevo Monument is a close reading of a time, equilibrium, a space, reality, utopia, powers, and systems. It’s a close reading of hope, courage, …
New Sacred Geographies: Mapping the Relationships Between Worship and the Environment
We human beings are geographical beings transforming the earth and making it into a home, and that transformed world affects who we are. Our geographical nature shapes our world and …
A Sacred Geography of the Collective Self
Characterized by cultural sensibilities and social visions that formed the “mass consciousness of the modern world,”1 the sixties were synonymous with the expansion of existing realities in almost every aspect …
Archeworks Papers: Chicago Expander
Over the last century, Daniel Burnham’s city has experienced unprecedented urban and regional transformations. A glance at history reveals that the sometimes more and sometimes less explicit intersections between dichotomies …
New Geographies 5
Petrov, Antonio. The Mediterranean. New Geographies Vol. 5, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. The Mediterranean: Worlds, Regions, Cities, and Architectures The central role of the Mediterranean in the development …
Texas Architect: New Sacred Geographies
A UTSA architecture professor and his students map the relationship between worship and the environment. What they find is a major contribution to the American landscape and to architectural discourse …
New Architectural Imaginaries
The Current cover, “New Architectural Imaginaries” was designed by Dr. Antonio Petrov and Aaron Stone. A description of their cover design is below. San Antonio’s architectural imaginary is rooted in …
Texas Architect: 1,000 Parks and a Line in the Sky
Urban Future Lab, a “think/do-tank” at the UTSA College of Architecture, Construction and Planning led by assistant professor Antonio Petrov, has developed a proposal for public space and transit in …