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News about our Dezeen Awards China programme, including entry deadlines and announcements. Plus occasional updates. Verán, amiguitos. Soy fanático de las cuevas. Probablemente desde que viera un diagrama en una vieja enciclopedia de Reader's Digest y la asociara con un laberinto (tema que también se trata en este libro), desarrollé una especie de picazón muy severa por conocer y explorar esos laberintos esculturales trabajados por el agua en el karst. Hasta ese entonces sólo había hecho una expedición bastante dócil a las cuevas de rigor del chilango promedio (sí, Cacahuamilpa), pero con el paso de los años he tenido la oportunidad de abrir un poco más mi experiencia. A panoramic investigation of the subterranean landscape, from sacred caves and derelict subway stations to nuclear bunkers and ancient underground cities—an exploration of the history, science, architecture, and mythology of the worlds beneath our feet.

My favorite chapters were those on the caves, a topic that did not draw me to this book; it was the underground cities that had caught my interest. When Will writes, you see it all, you feel it all. First there were the cave paintings, which I had always found to be beautiful when seeing them in books or on the walls of a class room at college. Then there were the two bison sculptures made of clay from the cave. Whenever people came into the cave, Tuc d'Audoubert, they felt a sense of worship. A sacredness. It was in these caves that the cave dwellers had their religious ceremonies. They danced themselves into trances, seen by the footprints that had remained in the cave all these years. But what is more, being in a dark cave, in total darkness can cause the mind to expand. You get visions. After the author shares his first adventure under his childhood home in Rhode Island he moves on to underground adventures around the world. Where I expected more of a look into unknown subterranean discoveries through the eyes of a thrill-seeking explorer, I was educated rather than merely thrilled. True, it is thrilling to think of new discoveries beneath the feet we think are standing on terra firma. I was impressed by the information Hunt covers and the many diverse locations he shares. More importantly, I was humbled by the reminder of the stewardship we have over our earth, and that we seem to be drifting away from the sense of respect and appreciation for our planet that generations before us have had, especially indigenous peoples.Who woulda thunk that you'd get a lesson on Native American origin mythology and the latest theory of evolution from an astrophysicist who keeps up with microbiology while being taken on a virtual tour of an abandoned gold mine?

Weekly updates on the latest design and architecture vacancies advertised on Dezeen Jobs. Plus occasional news. Dezeen Awards Durante buena parte del año he tenido dudas sobre qué libros van a acabar en las partes medias de mi Top 10 del año. Estoy bastante seguro de cuáles serán los primeros tres lugares y cuáles el 8, 9 y 10, pero llegué un momento a preocuparme porque no me encontraba con alguno que tuviera chances de ir en medio. Probablemente aquí ya haya terminado una parte de la búsqueda. Was Hunt vermutlich am stärksten von MacFarlane unterscheidet ist, dass Im Untergrund viel weniger dem Genre Nature Writing zugeordnet werden kann. Das heißt aber auch, dass hier die kritische Haltung zu unserem Umgang mit natürlichen Ressourcen keine Rolle spielt (für mich einer der überzeugendsten Aspekte bei MacFarlane). Ein Oberbegriff bei Hunt könnte eher „Lost Places“ sein. Though most of us feel like aliens when going underground, there is for some a feeling of coming home again. Even when that home is like a haunted house with spiders the size of chihuahuas. es uno de esos libros de no ficción interpretativa donde el autor hace el viaje de rigor para explorar una serie de manifestaciones alrededor de una idea central. En este caso se trata de la relación de la humanidad con el mundo subterráneo, tanto natural como artificial. Desde la caótica maraña de infraestructura urbana hasta las minas y cuevas, Hunt hace una exploración que nos lleva de la mano por tratar de entender la fascinación que nos provocan esos lugares privados de luz. Y como esta idea central es una que me atrapa de forma suprema; en cuanto me enteré de su existencia y siendo honestos, de la editorial que lo publica y la calidad con la que tiende a hacerlo en este idioma, me lancé a comprarlo.Iranian architecture studio Olgoo has completed a subterranean holiday home near Tehran, topped by a green roof that merges with the surrounding landscape. More Jon Astbury Will Hunt chronicles his search for meaning in the oft undiscovered world beneath our feet with a work that is part travel journal, part anthropological study. Hunt writes of his numerous explorations underground from the catacombs of Paris and the vast tunnels of NYC, to untouched caves in South America and Australia—and everything in between. His thoughtful commentary remarks on the discoveries of some of history’s greatest minds juxtaposed with that of the common traveler turned dirt evangelist, a commentary proving that an enduring and utterly human fascination with the underground world has always existed and will exist inevitably into the future. I saw that we- all of us, the human species- have always felt a quiet pull from the underground, that we are connected to this realm as we are to our own shadow." Unicorn, in the Hall of the BullsAs we move more towards what we term scientific, we forget other possibilities. "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Perhaps we can’t begrudge these withholdings. After all, adventure belongs solely to the adventurer himself. We, the reader and witness, are allowed only the glimpse we deserve from the safety of our armchairs, lit with reading lamps and a comfortable cup of tea at our side. Some things must be left undiscovered and undocumented, left for our own internal meanderings which I believe the author hopes to inspire by his documentation of a subsurface largely unknown.