Article: The Road That Is Not a Road, and the Open City, Ritoque, Chile.

The twentieth-century Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro wrote, "Flee from the external sublime if you don't want to die flattened by the wind." For better or worse, some of Huidobro's compatriots are tempting the elements.

The Road That Is Not a Road is an account of the theoretical enterprises of the Institute for Architecture at the Catholic University of Valparaiso in Chile. According to author Ann Pendleton-Jullian, the architects, poets, artists, and engineers who make up the institute's faculty take the poetic act as their inspiration in architecture. They want to tap into "the same enigmatic mental layer related to the unconscious mind of which the modern French ...

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