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Readings Art devotes its meeting today to "The roads are part of the landscape" of John Brinckerhoff recommended by Javier Castro, co-director of the Editorial Micromegas reading.
The meeting will take place at 18.30 in the Mills Río_Caballerizas
"The roads are part of the landscape", published by Gustavo Gili GG low and translated by Moses Bridge, makes a historical journey through the meaning delos roads and highways as part of the human environment.
With a sharp, concise writing, John Brinckerhoff Jackson has guided generations of readers to generate a new awareness of everyday environments.
The questions in this test are intended to provide users of the paths, roads and highways, and refers to the sense that charge crossing places.
John Brinckerhoff Jackson (1909-1996) was an essayist and cultural geographer.
After studying at the University of Wisconsin, BA in History and Literature at Harvard and completed a year of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Landscape founded in 1951, the magazine that published the American landscape issues, from the impact of the automobile, mobile homes or shopping centers to landscape studies or ordinary U.S. buildings.
He is the author of numerous books on the vernacular in the United States, among which include The Necessity for Ruins and Other Topics (1980), Discovering the Vernacular Landscape (1984) and A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time (1994).
Art Readings are held monthly since 2011 to people close to the study and artistic thought bring us his views on selected texts.
Javier Castro, who participates in these meetings since 2013, is co-director of the Editorial Micromegas Murcia.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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