Principia Architectonica

Principia ARCHITECTONICA, t item that commemorates Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica, is the recent book written by architect Alberto Campo Baeza during the 2011 cycle developed at Columbia University in New York. This third book continues the classic and poetic tone of 'The Built idea ' and 'Thinking with Your Hands': Alberto resists the speed of digital flows to stop time and gravity, and clearly express his appreciation of the const ment of the constants in Architecture, of the essential between the balance of light, space and matter. At a time on the media are highlighting the morphological audacity of production processes via software and interfaces, these words rooted in the philosophical fica tradition of Western culture, allow us to assess what technology seems to hide in the background. 112 p.: B/w, 21x15 cm., Paperback