Unpublished Critical Essays

Moderno pero no contemporáneo

Critique of expanded Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York.

2004

The New Face of Civil Authority

Benidorm City Hall , by José Luis Camarasa and AMP, Valencia.

Commissioned by Papeles de Arquitectura, Alicante, 2004, not

On the Edge of Silence

Analysis of the Law School Building of the University of Girona by RCR Architects.

February 18, 2002

Rules of Engagement

Analyzes the impact of post-structuralism on contemporary art.

October 1, 1998.

Ten Sketches on Architectural Drawing

Written for the magazine Abreojos, edited by Antón Patiño, 1994.

After Functionalism.

The consequences of Post Modernism in contemporary architecture.

December 1993.

The Perfectionist

Reflection on the quest for visual perfection in interior design

1991, revised, 1993.

City of Earth

A Potrait of Old Madrid, Summer 1989

1987 - 1998

Building Blocks: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Order of the Machine

Wright's relation to the development of ornamental brick and terra cotta.

Commissioned by Oppositions before the magazine ceased publication.  Dated April, 1983.  Revised for submission to the Journal of Architectural Historians, January 1986.

40 Views of New York

Postcards

1979 -1980

Symbols of the Sacred in the History of Architecture

Boullée and the sublime of Burke; Mackintosh and the symbolic forms of Lethaby; Asplund and the Freudian subconscious.

Written for courses led by Anthony Vidler and Stephen Wrede, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture and Planning, February 25, 1979.

An Introduction to the Role of Tradition in the Music of George Rochberg

Analyzes tonal components in Rochberg's serial music of the 1950s and 60s that anticipate his return to tonality in compositions of the 1970s.

History, the Arts and Letters Senior Essay, Robert Moore, Advisor, Yale College, April 15, 1976.  Awarded Brunner Music Prize, 1976.