Five questions for … Elena Ruiz Sastre
Elena Ruiz Sastre will tell us about Casa Broner, the house that the German architect and painter Erwin Broner designed for himself on Ibiza in 1960. The house was built over a cliff and was influenced by Le Corbusier. In 2005 the Broner house was bequeathed to Ibiza’s City Council.
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ARQ 123 | Housing: Urban Form
As far as we know, it was Leon Battista Alberti who first set down in writing the reciprocal analogy between house and city. Writing in the mid-15th century—at a time when cities were believed to grow according to principles of natural law—he proposed the phrase now...