Absolute Beginners

By Iñaki Ábalos

I aki balos presents the quintessence of his thinking about architecture and the future of the trade.

In his new book Absolute Beginners, acclaimed Spanish architect I aki balos explores forms of innovation in architecture. Drawing on diverse materials elaborated during the twenty years since the publication of his best-known book, The Good Life, balos examines questions centered on how and why architectural creation--at least the kind that arouses the greatest cultural interest--is strongly linked to philosophical thought, especially to the essay and the aphorism. He guides us to an understanding of why innovation--as happens in philosophy--is inextricably linked to reflection on the past and to the emergence of new ways of appropriating old problems.

Absolute Beginners is a single essay written with effort and passion, made for the pure pleasure of composing a new and complex work and understanding the source materials as necessary fragments while remaining open to adjustments, changes, and bridges between them. balos organizes his materials like a piece of music into a cohesive composition, to the delight and insight of his readers.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3038602876
• ISBN13: 9783038602873
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Park Publishing (WI)
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 8.6"