This book—following an initial manifesto/research project, Walkscapes: Walking as an Aesthetic Practice (2002), and a collection of articles, Pasear, detenerse (2016)—is an autobiographical account of moments and situations, at times true epiphanies, in which I discovered significant relationships between nomadism, architecture, and hospitality.
It is also a proposal for the hospitable refounding of our cities: to build, upon the ruins of the contemporary, concrete spaces for real people—places of passage and encounter for diverse populations, spaces for recreation and storytelling, and sites of exchange between hosts and guests, much like the inns and caravanserais of past eras.
Contents
Introduction: Walking, Stopping, Hosting/Being Hosted
Twenty-one Epiphanies
Notes on the Space of Hospitality
Porto Fluviale
