Yehuda Emmanuel Safran

I have a Weakness for a Touch of Red

Essays on Art, Architecture, and Portugal

In I Have a Weakness for a Touch of Red the passionate art and architecture critic Yehuda Safran collects a selection of his essays on architects and artists from Portugal that he has written since the 1980s. These are supplemented by further contributions on the most influential representatives of modern architecture.

Through this historical and at the same time very personal context, Safran places Portuguese architecture in an unprecedented perspective for the international readership, revealing the preservation of longstanding traditions as well as the increasing desire of an emerging generation that has, to an extent, overcome those traditions.

In I Have a Weakness for a Touch of Red the passionate art and architecture critic Yehuda Safran collects a selection of his essays on architects and artists from Portugal that he has written since the 1980s. These are supplemented by further contributions on the most influential representatives of modern architecture.

Through this historical and at the same time very personal context, Safran places Portuguese architecture in an unprecedented perspective for the international readership, revealing the preservation of longstanding traditions as well as the increasing desire of an emerging generation that has, to an extent, overcome those traditions.

Author(s): Yehuda Emmanuel Safran

Design: non-verbal club

14 x 22 cm, 5 ½ x 8 ¾ in

276 pages, 50 illustrations

paperback

2019, 978-3-03778-600-0, English
CHF 30.00

Yehuda Emmanuel Safran

YEHUDA EMMANUEL SAFRAN is an internationally active critic of Art and Architecture. He has taught at the Architectural Association in London, the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, among others. He is a member of the advisory board of the first Autostrada Art Biennale in Kosovo. Currently he lives and works in New York.