Road that Is Not a Road and the Open City, Ritoque, Chile

“The fascinating premise of this book is the belief in the possibility offounding a city in poetic acts, removing architecture from abstractgeometry and centering it on the poetic word. I am very positive aboutthis book and certainly recommend it. The questions it raises areextremely important for the practice of architecture, and particularly forthe teaching of the discipline. The author describes the Open City andits theoretical premises with great love. The existence of theexperimental city itself is rather unknown in North America. This is awork that deserves to be better known in the English speaking world, in thecontext of other important pedagogical experiments in architecture rangingfrom the Bauhaus and Ulm to Cooper Union.” Alberto Perez-Gomez, Saidye Rosner BronfmanProfessor of the History of Architecture; Director, History and Theoryof Architecture Graduate Program, McGill University

Ann M. Pendleton-Jullian is an architect, writer, and educator. She is a Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Professor and former Director at the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State University, and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Design at Georgetown University and the Pardee RAND Graduate School of Public Policy. Previously, she was a Professor at MIT for fifteen years.

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