José Manuel Ortega

“I don't think there is such a thing as originality. In the end, it's all a matter of degree. That was a time of feeling that I was closer to myself than I had ever been before.” Anish Kapoor

Without a doubt, tsarist absolutism had a lot to do with the fidelity of art and literature to nineteenth-century realism without hesitation until 1905. Especially literature reproached and accused a tradition that resisted the bourgeois-democratic backlash, which had taken place in Western Europe. In fact, in the intellectuals of the

"Luctacsian aesthetics represents the most fruitful achievement of the conception of art as a form of knowledge.”[1] Lukács's aesthetic philosophy, grossomodo, is a critical aesthetic, in many ways closed and based on normative assumptions. His reflection never separates art from its intrinsic ideological charge and condemns all art that

It is material work in its dialectical relationship with social causality, a condition ontologically prior to any intentionality, that will bring us closer to true art.

Economic, migratory and health crises coupled with poverty and perennial inequality in the countries of the global south are the great challenges that architects, urban planners and policy makers have to face from an innovative and interdisciplinary perspective to solve the housing problem...

Engaging, connecting and supporting women students and professionals is very important for the development of the next generation of female architects in leadership roles.

A model focuses on certain causes to show how their effects work in a system. It builds an "artificial world" that reveals certain connections between the parts that make up a whole. Connections very difficult to glimpse without the manipulation of the real world in its cumbersome complexity.