Four intense pages (Revista RELACIONES, Montevideo) in which an atheist materialist speaks in depth about Christianity, religion and the anthropological phenomenon of the sacred.

Entrevista a ELISEO FERRER, autor de SACRIFICIO Y DRAMA DEL REY SAGRADO.
A propósito del largo itinerario temporal de «la genealogía, la antropología y la his…[Read more]

How were the concepts of the observer and user in architecture and urban planning transformed throughout the 20th and 21st centuries? Marianna Charitonidou explores how the mutations of the means of representation in architecture and urban planning relate to the significance of city’s inhabitants. She investigates Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van…[Read more]

Departing from the intention to explore Frank Gehry’s drawings serving to their own designer to grasp ideas during the process of their genesis, the article examines Frank Gehry’s concern about the revelation of the first gestural drawings and all the sketches and working models concerning the evolution of his projects, and his intention to cap…[Read more]

The focus of this study is on the influence of urban ‘woods’ on people’s quality of life in disadvantaged neighbourhoods investigated via the lens of architecture in a Sub-Saharan metropolis. The new intra-Covid Urban Agenda acknowledges that current urban and state-wide resilience management plans, policies, and practices of neighbourhood are…[Read more]

(Sobre el «Discurso a Diogneto» y la literatura cristiana primitiva).
En este trabajo, se lleva a cabo un concienzudo estudio del «Discurso a Diogneto» o «Epistola a Diogneto» (como queramos llamar a este texto). Y en él, su autor destaca como rasgos fundamentales:
—El carácter muy temprano de este texto, que intentó armonizar la Iglesia co…[Read more]

The drawing ‘Autonomous Terrace’ by anarchist artist Clifford Harper was published first in the book ‘Radical Technology’ in 1974 as part of a series of illustrations “that although they are utopian images they depict an existence that is immediately approachable” (Harper 1984, p. 99). In Harper’s (ibid.) words, “all it would take is the seizing…[Read more]

Como ya saben muchos de mis amigos y seguidores de Internet, suelo organizar casi todos los meses un foro-debate en Academia.edu sobre asuntos que normalmente giran en torno a la antropología social y cultural, pero también relativos a asuntos destacados de la historia antigua y de la crítica textual, campos en los que normalmente se de…[Read more]

The foreword of YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 4 (2022)

Prédio sito na Calçada de Sant’Ana tornejando para a Rua do Instituto Bacteriológico, LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q90315009). 16 September 2020. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org. The cop…[Read more]

Av. Duque d’Avila 18 LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q98462960). 6 September 2020. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org. The copyright and usage rights of the original (16MP) picture remain exclusively…[Read more]

Palácio da Mitra, Marvila, LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q74474222). 2 October 2022. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org. The copyright and usage rights of the original (16MP) picture remain e…[Read more]

Av. Duque d’Avila 24 LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q98462953) . 4 September 2022. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org. The copyright and usage rights of the original (16MP) picture remain exclusively…[Read more]

Palacete na Rua Dr Alexandre Braga ODIVELAS PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q66814413). 10 October 2021. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org. The copyright and usage rights of the original (16MP) picture…[Read more]

Parque de Delfim Guimaraes AMADORA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q98940408). 29 September 2018. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org. The copyright and usage rights of the original (16MP) picture remain…[Read more]

Quinta das Ameias, Areeiro, LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q98286048). Ruins. (Quinta das Ameias, aka Casal Vistoso, aka Antigo Solar da Boa Vista). 7 September 2020. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and…[Read more]

Igreja do Antigo Convento de Arroios LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q74474004). Current Ukrainian Church in Lisbon. 25 May 2022. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org. The copyright and usage rights of…[Read more]

Ermida de Sao Marcos, CACEM & SAO MARCOS, PORTUGAL, Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q98427581). (Chapel / Church). Ermida de São Marcos, Cacém e São Marcos, PORTUGAL, Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q98427581). 25 May 2022. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at…[Read more]

Campo dos Martires da Patria 11 LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q98969072). Palacete no Campo dos Mártires da Pátria 11 LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q98969072). 20 September 2020. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the re…[Read more]

Antiga Fabrica de Gas da Matinha LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q90334721). Conjunto de estruturas industriais na área da antiga Fábrica de Gás da Matinha (gasómetro). 8 May 2022. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and comm…[Read more]