Over the last century, Daniel Burnham’s city has experienced unprecedented urban and regional transformations. A glance at history reveals that the sometimes more and sometimes less explicit intersections between dichotomies …
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New Geographies 5
Petrov, Antonio. The Mediterranean. New Geographies Vol. 5, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. The Mediterranean: Worlds, Regions, Cities, and Architectures The central role of the Mediterranean in the development …
Water Ontologies
Recovering Water as Narrative in the Making of a City This Urban Future Lab research project with undergraduate students at The University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA) explored water in …
Hydrogeographies: Mapping Water Ecologies in San Antonio
2015 When the Greek philosopher Thales talked about “water” as the origin of all life, he didn’t just refer to water as the material-origin of life, but for him it …
Texas Architect: New Sacred Geographies
A UTSA architecture professor and his students map the relationship between worship and the environment. What they find is a major contribution to the American landscape and to architectural discourse …
“1000 Parks and a Line in the Sky: Broadway, Avenue of the Future” exhibited at ITC
Hosted by the UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures is “1000 Parks and a Line in the Sky: Broadway, Avenue of the Future.” The exhibition features a 50-foot-long model of Broadway, …
Texas Architect: 1,000 Parks and a Line in the Sky
Urban Future Lab, a “think/do-tank” at the UTSA College of Architecture, Construction and Planning led by assistant professor Antonio Petrov, has developed a proposal for public space and transit in …
Dr. Antonio Petrov, students exhibit architectural interventions for Alamo Heights & Broadway
A “think/do-tank” led by Petrov is researching urbanization in Alamo Heights to develop new scenarios for possible transformations along the Broadway corridor. “The Third Condition” Alamo Heights/Broadway exhibition NIGHT ONE: …
The City Between Real and Ideal
Everything is City. It is stories, moments, colors, and images engraved in our memories imagining a place between real and ideal. However, complexity distorts perspectives of place, and we beg …