(@- + i-) realism-s
“Knowledge should not self-impose barriers or limits. On the contrary, it must feed on the different.”
(@- + i-) realism-s is the volume of the realism-s series where Ale Girá sets out the ideas behind the drawings. Its first part, @-realism, is a run of short essays on urban planning, architecture and engineering: what culture is, modernity and contemporaneity, whether aesthetics are functional, functionalism, profit and architecture, and the design of possibility.
The second part, i-realism, turns those ideas into eighteen city concepts sketched digitally: vertical, circular, inter-connected, modular and diamond cities; cities of arcs, bridges and cupolas; mushroom and tree-house neighbourhoods; a cave city, a sea forest city and an inclined city. 200 pages, free to read here.