Book, Adam's House in Paradise, A[LS]

With one eye on the past and another on the future, Joseph Rykwert - one of the most respected historians of Architecture - investigates in A Casa de Adão no Paraíso, which Editora Perspectiva publishes in its Studies collection, the archetypal references of man with his shelter and , from then on, the place of architecture in the cultural formation of human society. The anthropological nature of the investigation is the basis of a detailed process of relationships between identity factors and architectural production over the centuries, a dense and tasty broth that allows us to better interpret the directions of contemporary architecture and, in a broader context, the use of spaces inhabited by man.