#books #architecture | Kengo Kuma : topography

Kengo Kuma : topography.
Mulgrave, Victoria, Australia [etc.] : The Images Publishing Group, 2020.
296 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – Japón / Kengo Kuma 

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781864708455
Cita APA-7: Kuma, Kengo (2020). Kengo Kuma : topography. Images Publishing Group.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72KUMA KEN
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/v2/oclc/1252202637

[.en] Kengo Kuma is a globally acclaimed Japanese architect whose prodigious output possesses an inherent respect and value of materials and environment, often creating a harmonious balance between building and landscape. He masterfully engages both architectural experimentation and traditional Japanese design with twenty-first-century technology, resulting in highly advanced yet beautifully simple, gentle, human-scaled buildings. He's renowned for the drive to search for new materials to replace concrete and steel, seeking a new approach for architecture in a post-industrial society, and fusing interior and exterior realms to make spaces that both create a calming and tranquil atmosphere and which "transform" topography. In the pages of this exquisitely illustrated volume, Kuma presents close to forty of his most recognized and award-winning works, including FRAC Marseille, V&A Dundee, Mont-Blanc Base Camp, and Japan National Stadium. Kuma continues to forge a new design language: in this book he offers the reader deep insight into how he has engaged with different aspects of the architectural discipline by transforming topography, construction, and representation in order to give further progress to his ideas.

#books #architecture | Brick 20 : oustanding international brick architecture

Brick 20 : oustanding international brick architecture / [editor, Wienerberger AG ; authors, Hubertus Adam...(et al.)].
Zurich : Park Books, [2020].
281 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Concursos / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI / Construcción de ladrillo

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9783038601746
Cita APA: Wienerberger AG (ed.) (2020). Brick 20 : oustanding international brick architecture. Park Books.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-693.2 BRI
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/v2/oclc/1240243854 

[.en] From hand-made brick to high-tech product: building with blocks of fired clay today draws from a heritage of nine millennia and remains innovative, sustainable, and highly appreciated for its manifold applications. Since 2004, Wienerberger, the world's largest manufacturer of bricks and other clay building materials, biannually presents the international Brick Award as a scene for outstanding achievements in brick architecture. The 2020 edition of this master class saw 644 submissions from fifty-five countries that were reviewed by an international jury of experts. This book features the fifty nominees and the six winning designs, which are located in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Central America. All projects are presented in texts and richly illustrated with atmospheric images, site and floor plans, views, elevations and sections. Five topical essays by international authors, discussing the winning buildings in a wider context, round out this celebration of contemporary brick architecture.

#books #architecture | The essential Louis Kahn

The essential Louis Kahn / photographs, Cemal Emden ; [texts, Jale N. Erzen, Caroline Maniaque, Ayse Zekiye Abali].
Munich [etc.] : Prestel, 2021.
319 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XX / Louis Kahn
 
📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9783791387505
Cita APA-7: Emden, C. (2021). The essential Louis Kahn. Prestel.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72KAHN ESS
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/v2/oclc/1246782081

[.en] This book focuses on over twenty buildings that were designed solely by Louis Kahn. From his native city of Philadelphia to the heart of Bangladesh, Kahn’s architecture reflected his fascination with science, mathematics, history, and nature. Striking new interior and exterior photographs by esteemed architectural photographer Cemal Emden reveal the characteristic features of Kahn’s aesthetic: juxtaposed materials, repetition of line and shape and geometric precision. Also evident is the way Kahn’s designs flourish in a variety of settings—religious, governmental, educational, and residential. The book gives close attention to Kahn’s most iconic buildings, including Erdman Hall at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania; the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad; the Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in Dhaka, Bangladesh; and the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut, as well as a cluster of residences he designed in the Philadelphia area. Chapter openers written by architecture professor Caroline Maniaque, an introduction by academic Jale Erzen and an extensive chronology by academic Zekiye Abali, as well as a selection of Kahn’s most insightful statements complete this book, which allows for a rich understanding of Kahn’s architectural ingenuity.

 

The Essential Louis Kahn – book review.
A photographic cornucopia of Kahn’s buildings, this highly visual publications takes its reader on a striking tour of his architectural aesthetic.
Beth Williamson | Studio International, 2021-04-13
https://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/the-essential-louis-kahn-cemal-emden-book-review-prestel

The architecture of Louis Kahn (1901-74) transformed everyday materials such as concrete and brick into buildings akin to sacred monuments. In other words, he designed sublime structures that hold us in wonder. Born in the Russian Empire (now Estonia), Kahn emigrated to the United States with his family in 1906. Yet, despite completing his architectural training in Pennsylvania in 1924, Kahn was in his 50s by the time he found his own distinctive style. His designs for religious, governmental, educational and residential buildings all demonstrate his insistence on the juxtaposing of materials and the use of repetition, as well as geometric precision. His buildings emerged across the world, from his hometown of Philadelphia to Ahmedabad in India and Dhaka in Bangladesh.

The Essential Louis Kahn focuses on 23 buildings designed solely by him and includes a rich and extensive visual element in the form of previously unpublished photographs by the esteemed architectural photographer Cemal Emden. Indeed, Emden’s photographs are present in abundance and give a strong sense of Kahn’s vision for the spaces he designed. Punctuating the book are statements by Kahn which help to formalise his position on, among other things, form, design, space, materials and light. There are a number of additional contributions in the form of essays and other texts by Caroline Maniaque, a professor of architecture, and Jale Erzen and Ayşe Zekiye Abali, both academics.

Erzen’s introductory text presents us with the tenets of Kahn’s architecture. In 10 or so pages, Erzen addresses his career through these tenets, giving us a good feel for Kahn’s approach, his underlying architectural philosophy and what was important to him. Kahn’s architecture is described here as “an integrated union of space and mass, solid and void”, and that certainly seem like a useful way to summarise his concerns. With integration comes a wholeness of being and buildings that can be understood in monumental terms. Many of Kahn’s building begin with a central core that is protected by surrounding structures. The core is enveloped, lending privacy and safeguarding its special atmosphere.

It is difficult to know which of the 23 buildings featured in this publication to mention here. However, Kahn’s Salk Institute for Biological Studies (1959-65) in La Jolla, San Diego, California caught my attention. Its position on the edge of a canyon with cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean is a commanding one. The photographs of this medical research laboratory show buildings grouped together with adjoining pavilions, and acute attention to the presence of light and waterways, waterfalls and pools. Kahn explained: “The rainwater, scarce as it is, is gathered in a cistern and then sent up to a higher point where it is distributed by gravity, and these pools are linear and shaded by trees so that evaporation does not too quickly occur.” In this way, Kahn’s design was sensitive to the local climate and weather.

In his designs for Phillips Exeter Academy Library (1965-72) in Exeter, New Hampshire, Kahn was sensitive to the locale too, but in a different way. In his “Comments on the Library” in 1972, he explained how a long-established local brickyard, about to go out of business, was brought to his attention. He loved the irregularity of the bricks and two million were supplied for the building of the library. As well as local bricks, the library also boasts large plate-glass windows and a covered walkway. Inside the building, wooden structures are used to create reading desks and study carrels, each with a small window and shutters. The use of raw materials, textures and geometric design also feature the circle within a square motif that is common to many of Kahn’s designs.

Yale University Art Library (1951-53) in New Haven, Connecticut, includes what Kahn called a “breathing ceiling” in which he housed ventilation, pipes and cables. It features an uninterrupted interior space (made possible by the increased span of the tetrahedral ceiling structure), glazed facades and materials left to show their raw surface finish. This feat of form and materials is a deliberate strategy to draw attention to the building and its construction. As Kahn wrote in 1955: “The formwork was made from floor to floor, and this line was accented in the design; because what we tried to do in the expression of the building was to show in every way how it was built.”

What of Kahn’s residential projects? Between 1943 and 1973, Kahn designed about 30 houses, although only half of these were built. In 1961, he reflected that a “house is the abstract characteristic of spaces good to live in” and that “home is the house and the occupants”. Still, Kahn’s residential projects were not entirely separate from his public works. The two strands of his work ran in parallel, influencing one another as his ideas progressed from project to project. The houses photographed in the book are mostly in Pennsylvania. From the Jesse and Ruth Oser House (1940-42) to the Norman and Doris Fisher House (1960-67), and those in between, they are all houses that invite us in.

I have to mention the Franklin D Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park (1973-2012) in New York City. Kahn had been asked to design a memorial to Roosevelt in 1972. He said: “I had this thought: that a memorial should be a room and a garden.” His idea was of a garden as personal and a room as an extension of self, hence their suitability for a memorial. The project was halted following Kahn’s death in 1974 and not continued until much later, finally being completed in 2012. Emden’s photographs reveal it as a phenomenal space on Roosevelt Island in the middle of the East River. Despite being completed by other architects, it is a testament to Kahn’s belief in the emotional power of abstraction as enormous blocks of white granite construct a roofless outdoor room, still, contemplative and monumental.

In this book, it is Emden’s photographs and Kahn’s words that provide the greatest insights, enriching our understanding of Kahn’s approach to architecture. Still, the contemporary texts by Erzen, Maniaque and Abali function as helpful bridges between Kahn’s architectural philosophy and Emden’s architectural photographs. In this way, they help us to navigate ideas and spaces. Ultimately, it is the images that entice, introducing us to buildings we may wish to visit when we can.

#books #architecture | From there to here

From there to here / David A. Hansen ; edited by Jake Anderson.
Novato, California : ORO, 2021.
260 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – Estados Unidos / David A. Hansen

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781943532957
Cita APA-7: Hansen, D. A. (2021). From there to here. ORO.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72HANSEN FRO
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/v2/oclc/1246670314

[.en] This second monograph represents circumstances and projects which have occurred beyond the span of David Hansen's original monograph. Through sketches, diagrams, rendering, photographs and narratives, this book portrays the criteria and conceptual thinking that was primary in finding an inclusive architectural solution for a diverse selection of projects. Though, Hansen has always attempted to create a comprehensive matrix of interrelated design criteria on his client's vision, site, context, sustainability, climate, culture and tradition, some issues must be weighted above others. And sometimes, a story must be told that is inexorably tied to the essence of the land or building. These commentaries can even provide deeper meaning than the determinants of the building themselves.

#books #architecture | Building for the community in Vienna

Bauen für die Gemeinschaft in Wien = Building for the community in Vienna / Isabella Marboe ; Mit Fachbeitrag von = with contribution by Robert Temel.
München : Detail, 2021.
144 p. : il. 

Ed. bilingüe alemán - inglés
/ EN / DE / Libros / Arquitectura doméstica – Austria / Inmuebles para vivienda / Viena (Austria) / Vivienda social – Austria

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9783955535292
Cita APA-7: Marboe, Isabella (2021). Bauen für die Gemeinschaft in Wien: building for the community in Vienna. Detail.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-728.2 BAU
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/v2/oclc/1250021649

[.en] The presented residential projects in Vienna originated from a desire to develop living concepts that strengthen the sense of community and contribute to a society based on solidarity - building groups and participative projects, neighbourhood homes, temporary or permanent social forms of living and working for marginalised groups such as the homeless. Private homes can be downsized if there are more communal spaces. This reduces the need for land and property and gives the community room for leisure and other opportunities. Ulrike Schartner and Alexander Hagner from gaupenraup+/- explain the starting point and strategies of their work. Robert Temel and Isabella Marboe present the development of communal forms of building and living based on important precursors and trends.

#books #architecture | Pre-fab living

Pre-fab living / Avi Friedman.
London [etc.] : Thames & Hudson, 2021.
231 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI / Construcciones prefabricadas 

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9780500343487
Cita APA-7: Friedman, Avi (2021). Pre-fab living. Thames & Hudson.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-728.7 PRE
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/v2/oclc/1246782192

[.en] This survey of the world's most innovative and successful examples of pre-fabricated homes explores the full range of possibilities, open to anyone seeking to find clever and up-to-date solutions for building their own home. From net-zero houses to plug-and-play dwellings and converted shipping containers, each chapter explores the varied and exciting ways that architects and designers are using pre-fabricated technology to address today's living and world challenges. A reference section includes in-depth essays, which explore the latest manufacturing methods, trends and technologies, presenting a wide range of possibilities to suit every need, taste and desire. Richly illustrated with photography and drawings, with projects selected by a long-time expert in pre-fab architecture, this fresh take on new solutions presents the factory-made house in a new light. Whether designing on a tight budget, crafting something self-sustaining or simply looking for new spatial ideas, this is an essential and future source of inspiration for architects, designers and home-builders.

#books #architecture | Tomorrow's timber : towards the next building revolution

Tomorrow's timber : towards the next building revolution / lead author, Pablo van der Lugt, co-author (project cases), Atto Harsta.
[Naarden], The Netherlands : MaterialDistrict, 2020.
192 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Aspecto del medio ambiente / Arquitectura sostenible / Construcción de madera / Madera de construcción

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9789082755237
Cita APA-7: Lugt, Pablo van der (2020). Tomorrow's timber : towards the next building revolution. MaterialDistrict.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-694 TOM
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/v2/oclc/1240158737

[.en] Timber has evolved from a traditional building material to ‘mass timber’, an engineered high- performance product from which complete construction systems and even high-rise buildings can be made. Tomorrow’s Timber, written by Pablo van der Lugt, shows how mass timber has the potential to usher an ecological, technical, and well-being revolution in the way we build.

In Tomorrow’s Timber, new timber innovations are explored, including the materials, products, elements and complete building systems, providing context for this emerging shift in design and construction. Inspiring case studies worldwide show that the mass timber revolution is happening as we speak. Tomorrow’s Timber contextualizes the challenges and how forests and mass timber can help solve our global problems by mitigating climate change while supporting the move to a less resource dependent, circular bio-based economy. Finally, the book tackles real mass timber design opportunities and challenges on building and site level, before providing a promising outlook towards the future.

Tomorrow’s Timber is an informative and important resource for those committed to restoring our balance with the planet while serving the necessities of humankind. Abundantly illustrated, Tomorrow’s Timber covers all the above topics based on the latest scientific insights and statistics and lessons learned from practice.

#libros #arquitectura | Carme Pinós : escenarios para la vida

Carme Pinós : escenarios para la vida = building for life / comisario de la exposición, Luis Fernández-Galiano.
Madrid : Arquitectura Viva : Fundación ICO, 2021.
239 p. : il.
Ed. bilingüe español - inglés.
/ ES / EN / Libros / Catálogos / Arquitectura – Siglo XX / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI / Carme Pinós

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9788409261697
Cita APA-7: Fernández Galiano, Luis A. (2021). Carme Pinós : escenarios para la vida = building for life. Arquitectura Viva.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72PINOS CAR
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/v2/oclc/1240312813

[.es] Editado por Arquitectura Viva junto con la Fundación ICO, ‘Carme Pinós. Escenarios para la vida’ repasa la trayectoria de la arquitecta barcelonesa, comenzando con las ocho obras que firmó con Enric Miralles, entre ellas el Cementerio de Igualada, la escuela-hogar de Morella o el Palacio de Deportes de Huesca, y recorriendo a continuación ochenta obras y proyectos posteriores desarrollados con su estudio a partir de 1991, con algunos edificios tan relevantes como el CaixaForum de Zaragoza, las torres Cube en Guadalajara (México) o las intervenciones en la plaza de La Gardunya de Barcelona, que incluyen la emblemática Escuela Massana. Encuadernado en tela y tapa dura, con 240 páginas y en edición bilingüe español-inglés, el catálogo ofrece, además del texto de presentación de Luis Fernández-Galiano —comisario de la exposición—, una entrevista a cargo de Izaskun Chinchilla en la que Pinós desvela su preocupación por el contexto: «La arquitectura construye paisaje o construye ciudad: no es una escultura. Con cada actuación urbana, hemos de tener el propósito de hacer ciudad, el propósito de dignificar nuestro entorno.»

#books #architecture | The Miralles Projection : Thinking and Representation in the Architecture of Enric Miralles

The Miralles Projection : Thinking and Representation in the Architecture of Enric Miralles / Javier Fernández Contreras ; [editor, Javier Fernández Contreras ; translator, Jamie Benyei ; with contributions by: Emilio Tuñón... [et al.]].
Novato, CA : Applied Research and Design Publishing, 2020.
181, [36] p. : il.
Obra basada en la tesis del autor, leída en 2013 en E.T.S. Arquitectura (UPM).
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XX / Diseño arquitectónico / Espacios públicos / Enric Miralles

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781943532674
Cita APA-7: Fernández Contreras, Javier (2020). The Miralles projection: thinking and representation in the architecture of Enric Miralles. Applied Research and Design Publishing.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72MIRALLES MIR
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/v2/oclc/1232450391

[.en] This book explains both the origin and evolution of Miralles' system of representation, from his time as a student at the Barcelona School of Architecture to the latest projects he designed with Benedetta Tagliabue, including the heroic period with Carme Pinos. With previously unpublished drawings from the architect, it demonstrates on a fundamental level how the evolution of representation runs parallel to that of architecture, thus illustrating its indissolubility and mutual interdependence.0It is impossible to dissociate the evolution of the architecture of Enric Miralles from the development of his own system of representation. Beginning from a position inherited from his training at the Barcelona School of Architecture and his practice at the office of Viaplana-Pinon, where he acquired a liking for precision in drafting and a graphic style based exclusively on lines of the same thickness, Miralles soon developed a method defined by a customised use of orthographic projections, connected to a fragmented conception of the architectural plan and space itself.

#books #architecture | Women in architecture : past, present, and future

Women in architecture : past, present, and future / Ursula Schwitalla (ed.).
Berlin : Hatje Cantz, 2021.
215 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura y mujeres

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9783775748575
Cita APA-7: Schwitalla, U. (2021). Women in architecture : past, present, and future. Hatje Cantz.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72:316 WOM
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/v2/oclc/1246782267

[.en] The voices of thirty-six internationally active women architects are heard through their own projects. This diverse panorama is supplemented by essays on pioneering female architects, and analyses that get to the bottom of the structural discrimination against women architects.

With Mona Bayr, Odile Decq, Elke Delugan-Meissl, Julie Eizenberg, Manuelle Gautrand, Annette Gigon, Silvia Gmür, Cristina Guedes, Melkan Gürsel, Itsuko Hasegawa, Anna Heringer, Fabienne Hoelzel, Helle Juul, Karla Kowalski, Anupama Kundoo, Anne Lacaton, Regine Leibinger, Dorte Mandrup, Rozana Montiel, Kathrin Moore, Farshid Moussavi, Carme Pinós, Nili Portugali, Paula Santos, Kazuyo Sejima, Annabelle Selldorf, Pavitra Sriprakash, Siv Helene Stangeland, Brigitte Sunder-Plassmann, Lene Tranberg, Billie Tsien, Elisa Valero, Natalie de Vries, Andrea Wandel, Helena Weber, and Lu Wenyu.

👤 Ursula Schwitalla studied art history and works as an exhibition curator and art consultant. As chairwoman of the Tübinger Kunstgeschichtliche Gesellschaft e.V., lecturer and associate member of the BDA, she has been responsible for the lecture series “Architecture Today” at the University of Tübingen for twenty years.

Escola Massana, de Carme Pinós //

All hail the groundbreaking women in architecture.
International Women’s Day is upon us and publisher Hatje Cantz prepares to launch a new book – ‘Women in Architecture’ – celebrating just that: the amazing female architects of past, present and future.
Ellie Stathaki | Wallpaper, 2021-03-06
https://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/women-in-architecture-book-hatje-cantz-2021

German publisher Hatje Cantz’s latest book follows up on the much-needed current debate about the role of women in architecture. Coming at a critical time, with reports of women being especially hard hit by the pandemic making headlines, and just in time for the 2021 International Women’s Day, ‘Women in Architecture’ highlights the amazing female architects of past, present and future.

The new title reaches far and wide across the globe and picks 36 internationally acclaimed women who have made their mark in the world of architecture. Names include Odile Decq, Elke Delugan-Meissl, Manuelle Gautrand, Annette Gigon, Itsuko Hasegawa, Anna Heringer, Anupama Kundoo, Lu Wenyu, Dorte Mandrup, Farshid Moussavi, Carme Pinós, Kazuyo Sejima, Annabelle Selldorf and Nathalie de Vries.

Far from being a ‘simple’ listing of the achievements, awards and projects of this incredible bunch, the book delves deep into the history of the role women have played in the architecture scene. Essays from the book’s author, German historian, curator and lecturer Ursula Schwitalla, as well as contributors including Odile Decq and Beatriz Colomina, explore the past and architecture’s painful lack of female representation.

The book names women that have been active in architecture and building since the Middle Ages – such as Katherine Briçonnet (1494-1526), key to the design of the Château de Chenenceau, and Plautilla Bricci (1616–1705), the first professional female architect recorded in Rome. It covers the Industrial Revolution and extends through the 20th century, with more well-known examples, such as the women of the Bauhaus.

The historical essays and texts dedicated to prominent representatives of the past, such as Zaha Hadid and Eileen Gray, are followed by a rich portfolio show of each of the 36 living architects included in the book. Spanning continents and building typologies, this book is not about a single aesthetic style or even a specific overall conceptual approach; rather, it pays tribute to the undoubtable rich variety, powerful achievements and enormous potential the women in architecture have to offer. 

 

Y TAMBIÉN…
13 mujeres que cambiaron la historia de la arquitectura y el diseño.
Recordamos a algunas mujeres pioneras que, de no ser por sus aportaciones, la arquitectura o el diseño actual no serían lo mismo.
Cynthia Martín | Revista AD, 2021-10-04

https://www.revistaad.es/arquitectura/articulos/11-mujeres-cambiaron-historia-arquitectura-diseno/25276

#resources #articles #architecture | Matilde Ucelay : Women and the architectural vocation

Matilde Ucelay : Women and the architectural vocation / Inés Sánchez de Madariaga.
En: Studia Humanitatis Journal [ISSN-e 2792-3967], vol. 1, n. 1 (2021), p. 174-191.
/ ES / Artículos / RE / Open Access / Arquitectura doméstica / Arquitectura y mujeres / Feminismo / Matilde Ucelay Maórtua

🔓 Ed. digital:
Cita APA-7: Sánchez de Madariaga, Inés (2021). Matilde Ucelay : Women and the architectural vocation. Studia Humanitatis Journal , 1(1), 174-191.
Open Access / R-SHJ
https://studiahumanitatisjournal.com/revista/index.php/shj/article/view/12

[.en] This article looks at women’s vocations in architecture through the personal experience of Matilde Ucelay, Spain’s first female architect. To this aim, the first section provides a brief biographical note on the life and work of Matilde Ucelay: her initial vocation within her artistic and intellectual social milieu; the court martials and professional purges she underwent after the civil war in the 1940s; her full professional dedication to architecture during 40 years at a time when women did not have legal rights, as a solo professional who specialized in designing homes for the upper bourgeoisie in Madrid. The second section of the article looks at a number of relevant issues identified in the emerging literature on women in the architectural profession, and addresses them through Ucelay’s personal experience, situated in space and time. A first question relates to the concentration of the activity of female architects in the residential sector, and whether this is the result of active decision or of structural factors setting limits on their professional action. Another issue addresses whether women architects contribute a different vision to the residential project, and the case being, what this different approach to design can be and in what it materializes. Finally, the article explores the material, spatial and temporal conditions under which such work is carried out: that is, how the vocation for architecture is made compatible with private life.

[.es] Este artículo analiza las vocaciones de las mujeres en la arquitectura a través de la experiencia personal de Matilde Ucelay, la primera arquitecta española. Para ello, la primera sección ofrece una breve nota biográfica sobre la vida y obra de Matilde Ucelay: su vocación inicial dentro del medio social artístico e intelectual familiar; los consejos de guerra y las purgas profesionales a las que fue sometida después de la guerra civil en la década de 1940; su plena dedicación profesional a la arquitectura durante 40 años en una época en la que las mujeres no tenían derechos legales, como profesional en solitario especializada en el diseño de viviendas para la alta burguesía en Madrid. La segunda sección del artículo analiza una serie de cuestiones relevantes identificadas en la literatura emergente sobre las mujeres en la profesión de la arquitectura, que se abordan a través de la experiencia personal de Ucelay, situada en el espacio y el tiempo. Una primera cuestión se refiere a la concentración de la actividad de las arquitectas en el sector residencial, y plantea si esto es el resultado de una decisión activa o de factores estructurales que limitan la actuación profesional de las mujeres. Se plantea en segundo lugar en qué medida las arquitectas aportan una visión diferente al proyecto arquitectónico y en concreto al proyecto residencial, y en su caso, cuál puede ser este enfoque diferente del proceso de diseño y en qué se aspectos concretos se puede materializar. Finalmente, el artículo explora las condiciones materiales, espaciales y temporales en las que se desarrolla dicho trabajo arquitectónico: es decir, cómo la vocación por la arquitectura se compatibiliza con la vida privada.

#recursos #articulos #arquitectura | Prácticas feministas en la arquitectura española reciente. Igualitarismos y diferencia sexual

Prácticas feministas en la arquitectura española reciente. Igualitarismos y diferencia sexual / Lucía Carmen Pérez Moreno [Universidad de Zaragoza].
En: Arte, Individuo y Sociedad [ISSN 1988-2408], vol. 33, n. 3 (2021), 651-668.
/ ES / Artículos / RE / Open Access / Arquitectura y mujeres / Arquitectura y sociedad / Feminismo

🔓 Ed. digital:
Cita APA-7: Pérez-Moreno, Lucía Carmen (2021) Prácticas feministas en la arquitectura española reciente. Igualitarismos y diferencia sexual. Arte, Individuo y Sociedad, 33(3), 651-668.
Open Access / RE-UZA Zaguan [Universidad de Zaragoza]
https://zaguan.unizar.es/record/106255 

Open Access / RE-UCM Revistas [Universidad Complutense de Madrid]
https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/ARIS/article/view/67168

[.es] La arquitectura, como disciplina técnica y humanística, lleva décadas haciéndose eco de la teoría feminista a través de investigaciones académicas, prácticas docentes y profesionales que toman a los estudios de género, en general, y a diferentes tipos de feminismos, en particular, como puntos de partida para fundamentar teóricamente una crítica a posicionamientos arquitectónicos modernos ligados a una visión trascendental e idealista de la sociedad que abstrae las diferencias entre las personas. Estas prácticas feministas tienen el objetivo de proponer nuevas maneras de acercarse a la profesión y de conectarla, desde un posicionamientos materialistas, a la realidad vital de las sociedades en las que vivimos. A través de tres apartados ligados a un entendimiento de las mujeres como sujeto histórico, a la perspectiva de género y a la cuestión de la feminidad, este texto analiza diferentes prácticas feministas desde posiciones igualitaristas y de la diferencia sexual que están teniendo una presencia sobresaliente en la arquitectura española reciente. El objetivo es organizarlas según tres modo diferentes, aunque no excluyentes, en que se imbrican los estudios de género y la arquitectura para con ello facilitar su comprensión desde el pensamiento feminista.

#recursos #articulos #arquitectura | Encuentros interétnicos en la arquitectura Kayapó

Encuentros interétnicos en la arquitectura Kayapó / Julia Sá Earp [Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil], Valentina Dávila [Proyecto Fondart Nacional de Arquitectura, Chile].
En: La Tadeo Dearte [ISSN-e 2590-6453], vol. 7, n. 8, p. 96-121.
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Cita APA-7: Sá Earp, Julia, & Dávila, Valentina (2021). Encuentros interétnicos en la arquitectura Kayapó. La Tadeo Dearte, 7(8), 96-121.
Open Access / RE-Utadeo [Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano]
https://revistas.utadeo.edu.co/index.php/ltd/article/view/Encuentros-interetnicos-arquitectura-Kayapo

[.es] Partiendo de la experiencia interétnica de asesoría para la construcción de casas del proyecto Kikré, abordaremos desde una mirada crítica las mezclas o yuxtaposiciones dadas en la arquitectura Kayapó. Así, buscamos visibilizar el carácter participativo del proyecto como un método desarrollado de acuerdo con las especificidades de las personas y su cosmovisión. Estos procesos de yuxtaposiciones pueden verse como evidencias de la forma en que este pueblo comprende la cultura de los blancos con respecto a los lugares, la cultura y su propia economía, apropiándose y transformándola según sus preceptos culturales, resistiendo y protegiendo su cultura inmaterial.

#recursos #articulos #arquitectura | El palomar de Manolo : estudio de caso de arquitectura vernácula desde el paradigma cultural

El palomar de Manolo : estudio de caso de arquitectura vernácula desde el paradigma cultural / Javier Pérez-Gil [Universidad de Valladolid].
En: Memoria y civilización: anuario de historia [ISSN-e 2254-6367], n. 22 (2019), p. 727-756.
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Cita APA-7: Pérez-Gil, Javier (2019). El palomar de Manolo: estudio de caso de arquitectura vernácula desde el paradigma cultural. Memoria y civilización: anuario de historia, 22, 727-756.
Open Access / RE-UNAV Revistas [Universidad de Navarra]
https://revistas.unav.edu/index.php/myc/article/view/35137
Open Access / RE-UNAV DADUN [Universidad de Navarra]
https://dadun.unav.edu/handle/10171/58559

[.es] Tradicionalmente, el estudio de la arquitectura vernácula ha tenido un enfoque eminentemente constructivo y tipológico. Frente a ese paradigma comprensivo materialista y formalista, este trabajo propone un estudio de caso desde una perspectiva decididamente cultural. Se aplica a un palomar de la Tierra de Campos, pero no a un palomar típico. Se trata una arquitectura híbrida, en uso y reconstruida con materiales industriales. La investigación demostrará la importancia de los estudios contextuales y la necesidad de centrar la investigación en el factor humano, pues es a este al que remiten los valores que recogen los atributos de la arquitectura vernácula. Igualmente, revelará que los palomares en Tierra de Campos tienen una tradición y significado histórico muy diferentes de los que se han venido considerando. Se pretende, en fin, la comprensión más integral posible de una arquitectura vernácula en orden a los fundamentos (culturales) que definen su especificidad como tal y como patrimonio.

#recursos #articulos #arquitectura | Wittgenstein : filosofía y arquitectura como disciplinas éticas

Wittgenstein : filosofía y arquitectura como disciplinas éticas / Modesto Gómez Alonso [Universidad de La Laguna].
En: Revista Filosofía UIS [ISSN-e 2145-8529], vol. 20, n. 2 (2021), p. 19-46.
/ ES / Artículos / RE / Open Access / Arquitectura – Filosofía / Arquitectura – Teoría / Estética / Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Cita APA-7: Gómez Alonso, Modesto (2021). Wittgenstein: filosofía y arquitectura como disciplinas éticas. Revista Filosofía UIS, 20(2), 19–46.
Open Access / RE-CO-UIS [Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia]
https://revistas.uis.edu.co/index.php/revistafilosofiauis/article/view/11489

[.es] Es comúnmente reconocida la relación íntima que la casa que Wittgenstein construyó para su hermana guarda con el proyecto del Tractatus —un proyecto que haciendo visible el mundo tal como la ciencia lo representa, despierta en el lector la necesidad apremiante de una reorientación ética de su vida. Sin embargo, Wittgenstein llegó a percibir ambas obras como fracasos. Los objetivos de este artículo son I) dilucidar la razón (o razones) de dicho fracaso; II) argumentar que el segundo Wittgenstein no abandonó su proyecto ético, sino que modificó las estrategias para llevarlo a cabo —algo que también afectó a su concepción de la filosofía; y III) mostrar cómo Wittgenstein pudo resolver un problema básico para el conservadurismo tardío anclándolo en el orden inherente a la actividad humana ordinaria.

#recursos #articulos #arquitectura | La "arquitectura" de la COVID-19

La "arquitectura" de la COVID-19 / Francesc Pernas Galí.
En: Palimpsesto [ISSN 2014-9751], 21 (2020), p. 6-7.
/ES / Artículos / RE / Open Access / Arquitectura – Aspecto sanitario / Hospitales – Planos y construcción

🔓 Ed. digital:
Cita APA-7: Pernas Galí, Francesc (2020). La "arquitectura" de la COVID-19. Palimpsesto, n. 21, p. 6-7.
Open Access / RE-UPC UPCommons [Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya]
https://upcommons.upc.edu/handle/2117/192512

[.es] La pandemia que afecta a buena parte del planeta es motivo de reflexión en todos los ámbitos. La arquitectura y el planeamiento están sin duda entre ellos. La situación de emergencia sanitaria ha causado una presión muy fuerte en los sistemas y las infraestructuras sanitarias. Los hospitales han respondido bien, gracias al el esfuerzo e imaginación de los profesionales que los utilizan. El personal es el único recurso que no se puede fabricar, ni construir. Para apoyar y proporcionar más espacio a los hospitales ya establecidos se ha recurrido a la reutilización de edificios y nuevas instalaciones de todo tipo. Algunos medios han empleado el término “arquitectura” para definir estas actuaciones. En el curso de una tragedia es imprescindible habilitar soluciones de emergencia, imprescindibles para sobrevivir, pero no disponen de ninguna de las cualidades de la arquitectura hospitalaria actual, ni para los pacientes, ni para quienes trabajan allí. Serían, en palabras de Nikolaus Pevsner, “cobertizos para bicicletas”. La emergencia debe ser la excepción. Hay que trabajar para mejorar la respuesta cuando se produce, y la experiencia obtenida en cada uno de sus episodios se debe utilizar para avanzar, aún con más rapidez, en las líneas de investigación ya abiertas en la arquitectura sanitaria. La “arquitectura” de la COVID-19 no ha venido para quedarse. No se puede hacer una arquitectura para cada enfermedad. Eso corresponde a siglos pasados. La arquitectura, los hospitales también le pertenecen, forma parte de la cultura de un país, debe preservarse, y en momentos como este no debe olvidarse.