Author´s books
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Rebuilding Eden. Myth and architecture in the East
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Pedro Azara
Pedro Azara is an architect and professor of aesthetics at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Barcelona. As well as his teaching work and research, he commissioned the exhibitions Casas del alma (1997) and La fundación de la ciudad. Mitos y ritos en el mundo antiguo (2000), both held at the Centre de Cultura Contemporánia de Barcelona (CCCB). His publications include La imagen y el olvido. El arte como engaño en la filosofía de Platón (Siruela, Madrid, 1995) and Castillos en el aire. Mito y arquitectura en Occidente (Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 2002). He has taken part in the conferences La fundación de la ciudad (CCCB/Museu d’Arqueologia de Catalunya, Barcelona, 2000) and Arquitecturas celestiales (CCCB/Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, 2006) and was awarded a grant from the Getty Foundation in 1997.