Christian Parreno is Assistant Professor of History and Theory of Architecture at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador.
This is an innovative introduction to a new subject which would be of interest to a readership of researchers and architectural theoreticians. A significant contribution to architectural theory, it comes at a time when alternative ways of addressing modernist history and theory are gaining interest fast. --Dr Timothy Brittain-Catlin, Director for the Centre of Research in European Architecture (CREAte), University of Kent Writing about boredom requires a special skill for sure and I believe that the book for the most part accomplishes this admirably. . . . As to the market, this is no textbook, but a serious work of scholarship that will appeal primarily to the history/theory world. It is also interdisciplinary and so will appeal to philosophy and literature. All in all, I strongly recommend publication. It is an outstanding work, thoughtful, meaningful and provocative. --Mark Jarzombek, Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture, MIT