#books #architecture | Ricardo Bofill : visions of architecture

Ricardo Bofill : visions of architecture / edited by Robert Klanten, Maria-Elisabeth Niebius and Valentina Marinai.
Berlin : Die Gestalten Verlag, 2019.
300 p.+ 1 h. : il.
ISBN 9783899559408
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XX / Ricardo Bofill
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72BOFILL RIC
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1099527857

[.en] Ricardo Bofill is one of the 20th century’s most unique architects and radical visionaries. His visions for urban and communal life challenged preconceived notions of shared space and proposed alternative styles of living. This monograph explores his revolutionary approach by profiling his greatest projects like La Fábrica, Walden 7, La Muralla Roja or Abraxas. Spectacular new photography by Salva López, texts by experts like Nacho Alegre and Douglas Murphy as well as by Bofill himself are complemented with sketches and floor plans. Bofill’s fantastic creations satisfy a longing for originality, personality and progressive ideals.

Catalan architect Ricardo Bofill has been an industry leader since the early 1960s, his architectural and urban design practice Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura having completed an impressive 1,000 projects in more than 50 countries; each of them groundbreaking and inspired. 

Having designed his first summer home in Ibiza at the tender age of 23, the now 79 year old—inspired by vernacular architecture through early travels in Spain, before studying at the Barcelona School of Architecture—is widely and justly considered one of the 20th century’s most unique architects and radical visionaries, a fact that is celebrated in a new landmark gestalten monograph. 

Edited by the publishers and Bofill, the 300-page hardback book explores his revolutionary approach by profiling his greatest works—including La Fábrica which, located on the outskirts of the architect’s hometown Barcelona, serves as headquarters to his practice; as well as nearby Walden 7, a visionary work dreamt up in Algerian desert and known affectionately by locals as the ‘kasbah’. 

Outside of Barcelona, La Muralla Roja—or ‘the red wall’—is a housing project located within the La Manzanera development in Spain’s Calpe that foresaw Instagram aesthetics. Striking colours on the exterior and inner façades either contrast with nature or complement its purity. Over in neighbouring France, his landmark project Les Espaces d’Abraxas has a close eye cast upon its almost inconceivable enormity. 

With photography by Salva López; texts by experts like Nacho Alegre and Douglas Murphy, as well as by Bofill himself; and original sketches and floor plans, the monograph showcases the work of an authentic revolutionary—a man who brought together a a multidisciplinary, multitalented group in order to confront the complexity of architectural practice. A man whose visions will endure in ambitious, frequently surreal, always inspired structures. 

[.es] Espacios poéticos, estructuras surrealistas y visiones dramáticas. La extraordinaria carrera de Ricardo Bofill se recoge en esta monografía, que revela su enfoque inspirador de la arquitectura y la vida. Ricardo Bofill es uno de los arquitectos y visionarios radicales más singulares del siglo XX. Sus visiones para la vida urbana y comunitaria desafiaron nociones preconcebidas de espacio compartido y propusieron estilos de vida alternativos. Esta monografía explora su enfoque revolucionario al perfilar sus grandes proyectos como La Fábrica, Walden 7, La Muralla Roja o Abraxas. La espectacular fotografía nueva de Salva López, los textos de expertos como Nacho Alegre y Douglas Murphy, así como el propio Bofill, se complementan con bocetos y planos de planta. Las fantásticas creaciones de Bofill satisfacen un anhelo de originalidad, personalidad e ideales progresistas.

DOCUMENTACIÓN
Los últimos 60 años de trabajo de Ricardo Bofill Taller De Arquitectura, en un nuevo libro.
Ramiro Pérez Toledo | Metalocus, 2019-06-08
https://www.metalocus.es/es/noticias/los-ultimos-60-anos-de-trabajo-de-ricardo-bofill-taller-de-arquitectura-en-un-nuevo-libro

#books #urbanism | Urban renewal design

Urban renewal design / editing, Dandan Song.
London : Design Media Publishing, 2018.
287 p. : il.
ISBN 9781912268283
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Aspecto del medio ambiente / Ciudades – Renovación / Espacios públicos / Urbansimo – Aspecto del medio ambiente
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-712.25 URB
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1099465493

[.en] Urban renewal means reconstruction practices conducted upon structures and places that can no longer adapt themselves to new developments of the urban environment. Urban renewal plays a critical role in improving the living environment for modern urban dwellers, and renovation and regeneration of public open spaces has become a key component of urban renewal. The book collects many fabulous world landscape projects and focuses on urban renewal design from three aspects: conservation of historical sites, eco-sustainability of urban environment, and artistic regeneration. In this way we hope the book can help explore new strategies for urban development driven by renovation and landscape architecture.

#books #architecture | Snøhetta : collective intuition

Snøhetta : collective intuition / Snøhetta.
London : Phaidon, 2019.
255 p. : il.
ISBN 9780714877174
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI / Snohetta
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72SNOHETTA SNO
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1100421113

[.en] The first in-depth monograph on one of the most important contemporary architecture practices working today. With offices in Oslo, Innsbruck, San Francisco, and New York, and projects all over the world, Snøhetta's architecture, landscape, interior, and branding design projects are created across political boundaries, at all scales, and are fundamentally concerned with the unique interactions between people and places. Through stunning imagery and evocative narrative text, this book showcases 24 exceptional projects - including the 9/11 Memorial & Museum Pavilion and the Oslo Opera House - which, together, illustrate Snøhetta's boundary-pushing and highly collaborative approach to design. The book is organized into three chapters: Integration of Disciplines, Political Space, and Generosity and Collective Ownership. The books is the perfect expression of the firm's values and how it has evolved over its 30-year history. Conversations with Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Gaute Brochmann lend depth and focus. An illustrated chronology and detailed architectural drawings provide deeper insight.

#books #architecture | Buildings and almost buildings : Narchitects

Buildings and almost buildings : Narchitects / Eric Bunge, Mimi Hoang.
New York : Actar, 2019.
400 p. : il.
ISBN 9781948765084
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Filosofía / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI / nARCHITECTS
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72 nARCHITECTS BUI
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1100420952

[.en] Is architecture inherently complete? Or is it a state of incompletion and seeming inadequacy that incites us to imagine architecture as an armature for an ever-changing daily life?

Buildings and Almost Buildings, made possible in part through a grant from the Graham Foundation, explores the work of nARCHITECTS as a single project – an anti-monograph with a subtle manifesto about the open-ended, incomplete, and ambiguous in architecture. Structured around a variety of modes of representation specially prepared for the book, Buildings and Almost Buildings reveals the ways in which the celebrated New York office led by Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang addresses contemporary issues of a world in flux. Across a range of buildings, public spaces, and ephemeral installations, nARCHITECTS argues for the formal and social potential of an architecture that remains somehow incomplete and ambiguously perceived—or in the authors’ words, Almost Buildings.

nARCHITECTS is a Brooklyn based architecture office led by Principals Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang. In recent projects such as Carmel Place (New York City’s first micro unit building), the design center A/D/O, and the renovation of Chicago Navy Pier, nARCHITECTS is tackling the most pressing issues that our cities face – how we live, work and activate public spaces in response to our nation’s changing demographics, housing shortage, evolving workplace technologies and need for equality in the public realm.

The firm’s awards and honors include a 2017 national AIA Institute Honor Award in Architecture, the 2017 NYS AIA Firm of the Year, a 2016 Academy of Arts and Letters Award in architecture, the AIANY Andrew J Thomas Award for Pioneers in Housing, the 2006 Architectural League’s Emerging Voices and the Canadian Professional Rome Prize in 2005. The firm has been ranked within the top 10 in the US in the design category for the past five years by Architect Magazine.

#books #aarchitecture | Richard Neutra : the story of the Berlin houses 1920-1924

Richard Neutra : the story of the Berlin houses 1920-1924 / Harriet Roth ; translations, Paul Bewicke.
Berlin : Hatje Cantz, 2019.
301 p. : il.
ISBN 9783775745154
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – Alemania / Arquitectura doméstica – Alemania / Berlín (Alemania) / Richard Neutra
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72NEUTRA RIC
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1100420982

[.en] Mention of the name Richard Neutra conjures the light-flooded bungalows that characterize the architectural style of the West Coast around Los Angeles. Because he is so closely associated with Los Angeles, it is sometimes overlooked that Neutra’s career actually began in the Berlin-Zehlendorf neighborhood in the early 1920s. And yet these houses in Zehlendorf represent a fascinating phase in Neutra’s work. With their complex color schemes and extravagant interior design, they reveal themselves to be more than just experimental and radically innovative designs. Indeed, these lesser-known buildings already hint at elements that Neutra would take up again in his future projects.‘Richard Neutra in Berlin’ allows for a long-overdue, rightful reassessment of Neutra’s early works. Alongside historical sources, it collects countless new and unpublished documents about the houses and their first residents.

Austrian-born architect Richard Neutra (1892–1970) finished his architectural studies in the midst of the First World War, and worked in Switzerland and Germany for a few years before moving to the United States in 1923. Settling in California after working briefly for Frank Lloyd Wright, Neutra became identified with a West Coast variant on mid-century modern architecture: rigorously geometric buildings designed in the International Style of Neutra’s European training, with an open, airy, flexible atmosphere suitable to Neutra’s new California home.

#monographs #architecture | DD 45 | Pony tricks

Pony tricks / CEBRA ; editors, Mania Bien, Jinyoun Na.
Seoul : Damdi, 2019.
240 p. : il.
Serie: Design Document Series ; 45.
ISBN 9788968010873
/ EN / Monográficos / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – Dinamarca / CEBRA
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72CEBRA PON
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1100421378

[.en] CEBRA is known for its cheeky, intelligent nature and the playful universe its architecture inhabits. Established in Aarhus 20 years ago by three founding partners, Mikkel Frost, Carsten Primdahl, and Kolja Nielsen, the Danish firm recently added a fourth, Mikkel Schlesinger. Recognised for their daring design approach and disruptive innovation, their projects constantly mutate from place to place, yet share a similar language nonetheless by connecting to the context in a broad sense, whether climatic, economic, or other. From Scandinavia and Russia to Abu Dhabi, the 26 projects spotlighted in this volume explore the main themes that run throughout CEBRA’s architecture.

#monographs #architecture | DD 44 | XS S M L XL

XS S M L XL / Fuksas ; editor, Jinyoun Na.
Seoul : Damdi, 2019.
272 p. : il.
Serie: Design Document Series ; 44.
ISBN 9788968010866
/ EN / Monográficos / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI / Doriana O. Mandrelli / Massimiliano Fuksas
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72FUKSAS XSS
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1100421328

[.en] Studio Fuksas, the brainchild of Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, has built its reputation over the past four decades with an innovative approach and a wide variety of projects. Whether an urban intervention, airport, museum, cultural centre, space for music, office building, interior, or design collection, the husband and wife duo creates complex mixtures of forms and spaces with an environmental intricacy seldom seen in architecture. This volume features 26 exemplary projects by Studio Fuksas arranged in sections by scale, from design objects to enormous works like the New National Archives of France and Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport – from extra small to extra large.

#books #architecture | House plans for challenging sites

House plans for challenging sites / editor and project director, Anna Minguet ; art director & layout Eva Minguet.
Sant Adrià de Besòs : Monsa, 2019.
144 p. : il. 
Ed. bilibgüe español - inglés.
ISBN 9788417557027
/ ES / EN / Libros / Arquitectura doméstica – Dibujos y planos / Casas individuales
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-728.3 HOU
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1099657725

[.es] ‘House Plans for Challenging Sites’ contiene más de 350 planos de plantas, secciones, bocetos y alzados, así como detalles constructivos de un total de 35 proyectos de viviendas que ya sea por su topografía o por la composición geológica del terreno, suponen un verdadero reto para los arquitectos. Exteriormente, son casas que quieren integrarse en el paisaje y minimizar cualquier alteración del entorno, al tratarse en su mayoría de paisajes naturales de gran belleza y diversidad ecológica.

#books #architecture | Eco China : roof gardens and green walls

Eco China : roof gardens and green walls / Jialin Tong.
London : Design Media, 2019.
272 p. : il.
ISBN 9781912268559
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – China / Jardinería vertical / Plantas en arquitectura / Tejados vegetalizados
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-712.3 ECO
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1099465916

[.en] Vertical greening and roof gardening is an important element of sustainable urban planning, and also a significant aspect in the construction of an 'eco-friendly China'. Especially now, when the greening area available to citizens is becoming less and less, vertical greening can give some compensations. It is also an important means to alleviate the urban heat island effect and deal with heavy storms. It also plays a key role in achieving the goal of sustainable development. This book aims to review developments of eco-cities in China in recent years. The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 introduces basic knowledge and technical know-how about vertical greening, including a general introduction and suggestions about site analysis, planning and design, green wall and roof construction techniques and maintenance. Part 2 is a collection of 32 projects, showing the latest achievements in vertical greening and roof gardens in China. All these projects are selected carefully and presented with photos, drawings and narratives to demonstrate the design process, conception, and installation/realisation in a professional way. Besides, important elements and factors that will have an impact on vertical landscaping are discussed in detail. It will be helpful to vertical greening practitioners around the world to learn from experiences and lessons in China.

#books #architecture | Gran Mediterraneo : project, process, progress

Gran Mediterraneo : project, process, progress / David Tajchman.
New York : Actar, 2018.
206 p. : il.
ISBN 9781948765015
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – Israel / Rascacielos / Tel Aviv (Israel)
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72.011.27 GRA
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1101431575

[.en] David Tajchman's first book about a self-initiated architectural research for a White City-specific High-Rise: the Gran Mediterraneo. Gathering working documents, sketches and rare pictures in an object specifically designed by graphic designer and art director Sara Jassim. In 2016, architect David Tajchman made public a self-initiated high-rise proposal on which he worked in secret during a few months. He decided to propose a new typology of skyscraper, more city-specific for Tel Aviv. Based on his previous observations that a new skyline is appearing in the White City, which according to his experience of the city and his knowledge of the local architectural history, does not take enough into account the 1930s and later Brutalist legacies. His yet unbuilt (but surely to get built) skyscraper is a spontaneous proposal from a foreign architect to the local decision makers, to open their eyes and their mind to other visions, for a more Tel Aviv-specific ver-tical architecture. The Gran Mediterraneo has been widely published as an architectural innovation and has won several awards gaining international recognition, with the recent Architizer A+ Awards 2017 received in New York. During the design process, David sketched, wrote, read and photographed about the various topics involved into his high-rise proposal. This book is an opportunity to share his references, background, research docu-ments, notes, drawings and working (3d) models. The book was first an exhibition-catalogue, presented last September 2016 in Paris in the framework of a solo show entitled ‘Gran Mediterraneo - Project Process Progress’. It contains archive documents on different topics and texts from invited contributors. 

The Gran Mediterraneo is an innovative concept of High-Rise that integrates a public automated car-park, operates as the first induction charging station for public and shared electric driverless vehicles in the city (future 'sherut'), and mixes programs of vertical living: residential apartments and hotel, bars and restaurants, farming and public gardens, swimming pools and dead sea spas, co-working spaces for offices and start-ups, educational and events spaces. Innovative also with its topological geometry giving a spiral effect to the high-rise, the Gran Mediterraneo breaks with the global and usual stacking of horizontal slabs wrapped with mirrored glass, aiming to renew Tel Aviv skyline with a 'Unesco proclaimed white city' specific vertical architecture. To be built with white concrete, using the latest construction and digital technologies, the curvy high-rise is filled with mediterranean and dead sea natures.

#books #architecture | Claudio Silvestrin's timeless Italian style : architecture, design, philosophy

Claudio Silvestrin's timeless Italian style : architecture, design, philosophy / Claudio Silvestrin.
London : Design Media, 2017.
355 p. : il.
ISBN 9781910596340
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI / Claudio Silvestrin
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72SILVESTRIN CLA
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1101969574

[.en] Highly creative, Claudio Silvestrin was born in 1954, studied under A.G. Fronzoni in Milan and at the Architectural Association in London. His interest in philosophy, his vision, his integrity, clarity of mind, inventiveness and concern for details are reflected in his distinctive architecture: austere but not extreme, contemporary yet timeless, calming but not ascetic, strong but not intimidating, elegant but not ostentatious, simple but not soulless. Claudio Silvestrin is a man of vision, the vast as well as the minute. Creativity is never delegated, his artistic supervision is total. Claudio Silvestrin is not a mere creative: what he creates in his designs, in turn, creates. He stands for difference rather than uniformity, quality rather than quantity, fewer projects rather than many. He is not a business man nor a PR man. He cares, advises, invents, teaches; he inspires. Claudio Silvestrin s golden touch always adds value to his clients projects.

#books #architecture | Bruce Rickard : a life in architecture

Bruce Rickard : a life in architecture / edited by Julie Cracknell, Peter Lonergan and Sam Rickard.
Sydney : NewSouth Publishing, 2018.
XV, 357 p.
ISBN 9781742235943
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – Australia / Arquitectura doméstica – Australia / Bruce Rickard / Casas individuales
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72RICKARD BRU
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1101968397

[.en] Bruce Rickard was one of the most significant Australian architects of the twentieth century. A key member of the Sydney School, his practice spanned 60 years, and he produced some of the most notable and recognisable houses of the period. In Bruce Rickard, architects, writers, academics, and family members, including Karen McCartney and Anna Fienberg (who have both lived in Rickard houses), Babette Hayes, Philip Drew and Richard Goodwin, share their unique insights into Rickard’s practice. Featuring never-before-published photographs by Max Dupain and Bruce Rickard’s hand-drawn plans, this stunningly produced book celebrates the pared-back beauty and ingenuity of Rickard’s buildings.

#books #architecture | Hassan Fathy : an architectural life

Hassan Fathy : an architectural life / edited by Leïla El-Wakil.
Cairo [etc.] : The American University in Cairo Press, 2018.
411 p. : il.
ISBN 9789774167898
( EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – Egipto / Hassan Fathy
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72FATHY HAS
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1101621257

[.en] This fully illustrated volume represents the most comprehensive examination yet of the life and work of the great Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy (1900-89), and the regional and international significance of his contribution to the lived environment. Eleven Egyptian and international scholars reveal the man, his milieu, his goals and his passions, his concept of social living and his fight for a humane model for affordable housing in tune with the environment, the application of these concepts in his numerous plans and buildings, his relations with the establishment, the extent of his influence, and the lasting legacy of his completed projects. Generously illustrated with archival and color photographs and the architect's own distinctive and beautifully decorated gouache plans and elevations, many never previously published.

#books #urbanism | Real urbanism : decisive interventions

Real urbanism : decisive interventions / [editor] Ton Schaap.
Amsterdam : Architectura & Natura, 2019.
431 p. : il.
ISBN 9789461400628
/ EN / Libros / Urbanismo
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-711.4 REA
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1100471090

[.en] ‘Real Urbanism’ is a book for and by lovers of cities. Eleven authors (urban designers) wrote the stories of places in the world that may be considered to be examples of successful urban planning. The book aptly describes cities around the globe and summerizes them with one single characterizing word, hinting at the particular tone of the text. Before each chapter, a photographic essay introduces the city. Topics such as Metamorphosis, Space, Frozen, Rationality, Health, Metropolis, Power, Espace Piranesién, Public Space, Suppleness, Optimism will lead you into the cities, a subtitle helping you ease into the topic. For your convenience, the text itself is accompagnied by archival materials.

This large volume book contains work in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, New York, Tokyo, Sao Paulo, Venice, Barcelona, London, New York, Edinburgh and Saint Petersburg. The The editor Ton Schaap is a long time urbanist for the city of Amsterdam involved with its IJburg, Museum square and Eastern Harbor District among many other projects and publications. The photographer Theo Baart has accomodated the publication with his pictures. Four young urban designers made the drawings to each chapter. And the graphic design by Irma Boom will lead to a unique presentation in book form. Ultimately, this book is an excellent publication and should pique any urbanist's interests.

#libros #arquitectura | Wooden houses in pure nature

Wooden houses in pure nature / editor and project director, Anna Minguet.
Sant Adrià de Besòs : Monsa, 2019.
144 p. : il. 
Ed. bilingüe español - inglés.
ISBN 9788417557003
/ ES / EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI / Casas de madera / Casas individuales / Construcciones de madera
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-728.3 WOO
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1101618059

[.es] Los nuevos criterios de planificación en vivienda sostenible se benefician de una fuente inagotable de ideas basadas en la madera debido a su gran versatilidad. La variedad de acabados y la facilidad de reciclaje de este material facilitan la construcción de diseños magistrales en lugares con climas extremos, laderas de montañas, terrenos rocosos o acantilados junto al mar.

#books #architecture | The object of Zionism : the architecture of Israel

The object of Zionism : the architecture of Israel / Zvi Efrat.
Leipzig : Spector Books, 2018.
951 p. il.,
ISBN 9783959051330
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – Israel / Sionismo / Urbanismo
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72.036(569.4) OBJ
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1089172318

[.en] Contrary to popular belief, the architecture and spatial politics of the State of Israel were not born haphazardly out of emergency or speculation. The Israeli built environment is the deliberate response to a unique objective―how to design and build a model state nearly instantaneously. To do this, space had to be remade: a new terrain was molded, and dozens of new towns and hundreds of rural settlements were constructed. Fashionable postwar architectural trends like Brutalism and Structuralism were appropriated as signifiers of national vigor. 

‘The Object of Zionism’ is a critical study of Zionist spatial planning and the architectural fabrication of the State of Israel from the early 20th century to the 1960s and '70s. Zvi Efrat scrutinizes Israel as a singular modernist project, unprecedented in its political and ethical circumstances and its hyper-production of spatial and structural experiments. Efrat explores the construction of the State of Israel in a book that promises to become a standard reference on Israeli architectural history.

Architect and architectural historian Zvi Efrat is a partner at Efrat-Kowalsky Architects in Tel-Aviv and was head of the Department of Architecture at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, between 2002 and 2010. He studied at Pratt Institute, New York University and Princeton University and has curated numerous exhibitions, among them ‘Borderline Disorder’ and ‘The Object of Zionism’. Efrat is a Graham Foundation awardee.

#books #architecture | Geography of dreams

Geography of dreams / RCR Arquitectes.
Tokyo : TOTO, 2018.
400 p. : il.
ISBN 9784887063778
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XXi – Cataluña / RCR Arquitectes
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72RCR GEO
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1100471789

[.en] In 1990 the collaborative practice of Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem, and Ramon Vilalta was invited to visit Japan for three weeks and participate in an architectural competition. This was a profound experience for the young architects, who were inspired the rich, lush landscape pervaded by a sense of perfection and beauty, effort and commitment. Published with an exhibition at Toto Gallery MA, this volume celebrates the dynamic dialogue that has since emerged between Japan and the Catalonian office. It is a close examination of the project La Vila and Paper Pavilion, where we can collectively learn and experience nature on a vast site with a research facility, workshop, and more.

#books #architecture | Architecture of nature : nature of architecture

Architecture of nature : nature of architecture / Diana Agrest ; with Yael Agmon ; with contributions by D. Graham Burnett ... [et al.].
Novato, California : Applied Research and Design Publishing, 2018.
279 p. : il.
ISBN 9781939621948
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Filosofía / Naturaleza (Estética)
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72.01 ARC
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1101619231

[.en] Based on documentation originating in the environmental sciences, history of science, philosophy and art, Architecture of Nature explores the materiality and the effects of the forces at play in the history of the earth through the architect's modes of seeing and techniques of representation. This book presents research work developed for the past eight years in the Advanced Research graduate studio 'Architecture of Nature/ Nature of Architecture', created and directed by Diana Agrest at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union. Architecture of Nature departs from the traditional approach to nature as a referent for architecture and reframes it as its object of study. The complex processes of generation and transformations of extreme natural phenomena such as glaciers, volcanoes, permafrost, and clouds are explored through unique drawings and models, confronting a scale of space and time that expands and transcends the established boundaries of the architectural discipline.

#libros #arquitectura | La metáfora del cristal en las artes y en la arquitectura

La metáfora del cristal en las artes y en la arquitectura / Simón Marchán Fiz.
Madrid : Siruela, [2008]
170 p. : il.
ISBN 978849841144
/ ES / Libros / Arquitectura – Filosofía / Construcción de cristal / Cristales / Estética
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-7.01 MET
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/433469393

[.es] Los cristales, en su crecimiento, se asemejan a los seres biológicos más elementales, como si tendieran un puente entre el mundo mineral y la materia viviente. El resplandor de la belleza que destila su cristalización es el germen de una idea estética transfigurada en metáfora artística que, desde el romanticismo hasta nuestros días, ha fascinado a numerosos escritores, a filósofos y, todavía más, a artistas y arquitectos. Éste es el hilo conductor de la presente narración que se despliega paralelamente en la estética, la pintura y el proyecto, y que se plasma en la síntesis entre la geometría y la proyección sentimental, la figuración cuboexpresionista, la floración de las arquitecturas cristalinas y sus tipologías en las «casas populares» y los rascacielos. Asimismo se manifiesta en la «otra alma» moderna del cristal, tal como apreciamos en las cosas (y en las casas) de vidrio, que no tienen aura, y en la actual fenomenología de las transparencias y los reflejos cristalinos.

#books #art #architecture | Modernism in Scandinavia : art, architecture and design

Modernism in Scandinavia : art, architecture and design / Charlotte Ashby.
London [etc.] : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2018.
IX, 243 p., [8] p. de lám. : il.
ISBN 9781350099562
/ EN / Libros / Arte – Siglo XX – Escandinavia / Modernismo (Arte)
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-7.036 MOD
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1101429332

[.en] Scandinavia is a region associated with modernity: modern design, modern living and a modern welfare state. This new history of modernism in Scandinavia offers a picture of the complex reality that lies behind the label: a modernism made up of many different figures, impulses and visions. It places the individuals who have achieved international fame, such as Edvard Munch and Alvar Aalto in a wider context, and through a series of case studies, provides a rich analysis of the art, architecture and design history of the Nordic region, and of modernism as a concept and mode of practice.

Modernism in Scandinavia addresses the decades between 1890 and 1970 and presents an intertwined history of modernism across the region. Charlotte Ashby gives a rationale for her focus on those countries which share an interrelated history and colonial past, but also stresses influences from outside the region, such as the English Arts and Crafts movement and the impact of emergent American modernism. Her richly illustrated account guides the reader through key historical periods and cultural movements, with case studies illuminating key art works, buildings, designed products and exhibitions.