Open AccessMáquinas y Metáforas
Author(s) -
Ángel Martínez García-Posada
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
vlc arquitectura
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.219
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2341-3050
pISSN - 2341-2747
DOI - 10.4995/vlc.2016.5746
Subject(s) - analogy , architecture , metaphor , clarity , art history , humanities , philosophy , art , epistemology , visual arts , theology , biochemistry , chemistry
The edition La ley del reloj. Arquitectura, máquinas y cultura moderna (Cátedra, Madrid, 2016) registers the useful paradox of the analogy between architecture and technique. Its author, the architect Eduardo Prieto, also a philosopher, professor and writer, acknowledges the obvious distance from machines to buildings, so great that it can only be solved using strange comparisons, since architecture does not move nor are the machines habitable, however throughout the book, from the origin of the metaphor of the machine, with clarity in his essay and enlightening erudition, he points out with certainty some concomitances of high interest, drawing throughout history a beautiful cartography of the fruitful encounter between organics and mechanics