Libros de Teoría y crítica de arquitectura, página 31 de 115

Dario Donetti, Marco De Michelis, Oliver Elser, Dominique Rouillard, Marco Biraghi, Marie Theres Stauffer, Maddalena Scimemi, Simon Sadler, Massimiliano Savorra, Anthony VidlerA homage to the 1973 publication Architecture and Utopia by Manfredo Tafuri echoed in the title this book is devoted to the radical experiences of the 1960s and to their consequences for the most recent developments in contemporary architecture.How to define a unified dystopian method of design, i.e. a common ground for an architecture that, by its very nature, seems to resist systematization?Are the most recognizable architectural expressions of this theoretical framework characterized by brazen displays of technology and structures of overwhelming scale merely isolated cases, albeit of particular iconic power? Or do they belong to a wider landscape of antirational architectural projects?And to what extent are these disturbing expressions premised on the utopian tradition or, better yet, the conceptual model of negative thought?The goal of this book is to respond to such questions, thus initiating an open dialogue about the legitimacy of this critical category.

Arquitecto y pintor, Joaquín VAQUERO PALACIOS (Oviedo, 1900-Madrid, 1998) es uno de los artistas más polifacéticos del panorama español del siglo XX. Titulado por la Escuela de Arquitectura de Madrid en 1927, su matrimonio un año despues con la salvadoreñArquitecto y pintor, Joaquín VAQUERO PALACIOS (Oviedo, 1900-Madrid, 1998) es uno de los artistas más polifacéticos del panorama español del siglo XX. Titulado por la Escuela de Arquitectura de Madrid en 1927, su matrimonio un año despues con la salvadoreña Rosa Turcios sobrina del poeta nicaraguense Ruben Dario vinculo su vida y su obra a Hispanoamerica. Viajero incansable por ese continente, pinto sus volcanes, selvas y cordilleras; en Europa fueron las ruinas de las antiguas culturas mediterraneas, las tierras de Castilla y las montañas de Asturias sus temas preferidos. Como arquitecto, destacan sus construcciones racionalistas de los años treinta y su obra de integracion de las artes en la arquitectura, llevada a cabo desde la decada de los cincuenta hasta principios de los ochenta en las centrales electricas asturianas de Hidroelectrica del Cantabrico. Fue academico de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Madrid) y de la Accademia di San Luca (Roma). Este libro sobre la arquitectura virreinal del pais de su mujer, hasta ahora inedito, constituye una muestra de su insaciable curiosidad.

The Berlage Affair is an anthology of critical essays, reviews, and interviews cataloguing 20+ years of work and insight from architectural educator, Vedran Mimica

Form follows function. There has never been a more seductive dictum in the history of architecture. In The Function of Form, internationally acclaimed architect Farshid Moussavi provides a provocative critique of the historically opposing relationship between function and form to reveal the contradiction at the heart of modernism. We need to move away from the defunition of function as utility, she argues, to align it with how function is defined in mathematics, biology or music. Form, on the other hand, should be considered not only in the way buildings are produced, but also how they perform sensorially.

The newly built Mas d''Enric penitentiary sparks a series of reflections on architecture''s role in the problematic subject of prison design. The prison is an uncomfortable institution and its architecture is often subjugated to technocratic criteria. This servility forces the prison out of the socio-cultural realm where it belongs, thus erasing it from public discourse. "Mas d''Enric" is a new penitentiary that overturns preconceptions and posits architecture as a medium to critically rethink contemporary prison buildings.The discussion is enriched by contributions from a number of influential architects and architectural theorists, and is complemented by original work in film, photography, literature, sculpture and visual arts.

From small-scale thermal properties to large-scale forestry, territorial, and carbon cycle issues, wood has latent propensities not well addressed in the current discourse on wood construction. Through a range of design research formats-from material testing to in-situ documentation to specualtive urban projects- this book articulates and illustrates future architectural and ecological potentials of wood

El libro plantea la estrecha vinculación entre la creación de las reales academias de Bellas Artes valencianas, la de Santa Bárbara, de vida efímera, y la de San Carlos, con los procesos de control, tanto de las obras construidas en el antiguo Reino de V

Hi ha moltes mirades a l’arquitectura de Barcelona. El fotograf Pepe Navarro ens ofereix una visió allunyada de l’academicisme i ens apropa als edificis de la ciutat en forma de presentació en serie

La arquitectura es más que una“poética casual”y este libro busca ahondar en sus rimas. Para ello, mediante un recorrido por las principales corrientes arquitectónicas con espíritu inconformista, Lore

Vision of recent buildings and projects from one of the most outstanding European architectural practices, also presented from a multilayered critic panel. to 2015, divided in types and thoroughly explained.Presenting architectural works at the time when they were been done is a critical question to understand, by specific practices, trends into our contemporarity. This book presents a full description of the projects by reelaborated materials (plans, texts, photos) producing a network able to transmit the qualities of the real architecture. Di erent contributions are theoretical. Coming from preeminent academicians, expand the arguments passing from the single cases to a category.

English Monograph, with translation at the end of the book in Spanish, French and italian.The book talks about the design and construction of the building 774 at CERN( European Organization for Nuclear Research) . The building 774 is a unique building both for its architectural value and for its location. Located in front of of the CCC (Control Center) at CERN is the main door of more than 100,000 tourists come visiting CERN each year.

Water Index highlights critical design projects from around the world that radically engage the fragile issues of drought, flooding, and contamination, revealing opportunistic, adaptive design strategies in response to the mounting global crisis.

Architects build in and for a system that is not only pathological, but toxic. It is ruining the only planet we have, and we are clearly at the end of what is still possible within this ecology.The architecture presented in this book is a form of resistance one which actively engages in the societies and territories it is inscribed in and which presents an antidote to the accelerating banalization of our everyday environments. The search for singularity is not a search for formal distinction or a fetishism of the architectural object, but instead the desire to inscribe oneself into a unique territory and moment in time.

Landscape Tunings maintains that landscape is more than ecology and technical performance; it is also an environment of paramount importance to ones dispositions and wellbeingan emotional space of social relevance, tuned with and for its communities. In this book, OFICINAA examines the design potentials of the Danube River as a civic anchor, a bioclimatic medium, and a space for collective imagination in the city of Ingolstadt, Germany.

The architects Saavedra and Díaz-Llanos produced a marvelous adaptation of the architectural style to the environment without compromising its essence.

An unique guiding model that seeks to adress the relationship between the economic meldown and the built environment in Iceland using ecological approaches.After a period of extraordinary economic growth at the turn of the twenty-first century, the economy of Iceland collapsed into the deepest and most rapid peacetime fiscal crisis ever recorded. Seeing the development of the capital area through the lens of scarcity, triggered new urban and regional questions and ecological approaches to design. This book considers both the crash and its aftermath as an opportunity to distil an intense snapshot of how ecological and human systems are interrelated, and how different ways of wiring those systems might lead to better and more resilient solutions. This publication derives from a case study on the built environment in the Reykjavik capital area in the light of the financial meltdown in October 2008. It is the work of the participants in the case study and a number of invited contributors from different fields; researchers, artists and activists that offer different perspectives on the case. The case study is a part of a larger European project, Scarcity and Creativity in the built Environment (SCIBE), funded by HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area). The work presented suggests a new spirit of development applicable to various cultures and climates beyond Iceland.

Contemplar aprendiendo ha sido siempre patrimonio de la mirada interior hacia las cosas, esto es, del reencuentro del tiempo con el yo, que las páginas de este libro, en inocente metáfora gráfica, pretende hacer elocuente a traves de las intuitivas trazas de la geometria invisible. Contemplacion aqui en la Alhambra, en su paramento vertical, que revela nuestro re-encuentro con la belleza de una materia recuperada por la mirada viajera, que re-crea los ensueños narrados, diluyendo la orfandad por la que discurre su propio di-vagar nomada.

¿Qué es una iglesia? ¿Cómo se construye? El arquitecto y el promotor que se enfrentan a la ardua misión de erigir un espacio sagrado son como funambulistas que recorren juntos, temblando, el sutil alambre que salva el abismo entre lo vulgar y lo sublime,

Si hubiese que resaltar una característica definitoria del tratado compuesto por Andrea Palladio (1508-1580), universalmente conocido por sus grandes arquitecturas religiosas y, sobre todo, civiles que todavia hoy embellecen las ciudades del Veneto, esta seria sin duda su pragmatismo clasicista. En contraposicion al neoplatonismo de quattrocento, su afan aristotelico por ceñirse a la realidad le llevo a primar el ideal clasico como supremo reflejo de un modo civil de vida. En palabras de Javier Rivera en su prologo a esta primera edicion, integra e ilustrada, en castellano: "Tras mas de cuatro siglos desde su aparicion (1570): racionalidad y libertad son los dos ejes de su pensamiento, y su mensaje arquitectonico por medio de los Cuatro Libros una proclama de clasicismo, no como estilo, sino como categoria, que emerge continuamente a traves de las epocas".

Antología de textos de teoría y crítica sobre arquitectura moderna y contemporánea. Bibliografía de los profesores de la ETSAM (Madrid) hasta 2007. Textos de teoría y crítica sobre arquitectura mod