Tag: arquitectura inglesa

He citado en muchas ocasiones, alguna vez en este espacio, la definición del arquitecto de Carlos Raúl Villanueva. Topé con ella en clave reflexiva hace unos veinte años, a pesar de que cayó en mis manos ya en 1965, como parte de los textos de nuestro maestro publicados por la colección Espacio y Forma que Antonio Granados Valdés dirigía en […]

Les decía hace dos semanas a los estudiantes que una de las virtudes que le atribuyo a la arquitectura de Carlos Raúl Villanueva es su ausencia de refinamiento, algo que es difícil de explicar sin restringir el significado de esa palabra. Excluir por ejemplo la idea de esmero, o “cuidado especial” yendo mejor a la de “hacer más fina una […]

Yvonne Farrell (1951) y Shelley McNamara (1952) se conocieron durante sus estudios universitarios en la Escuela de Arquitectura del University College Dublin (UCD). Estudiaron con arquitectos racionalistas que acababan de llegar para desafiar el pensamiento y la cultura preexistentes de la institución. Al graduarse en 1976, se les ofreció la oportunidad única de enseñar en UCD, donde continuaron educando hasta 2006, y […]

Allison y Peter Smithson construyeron para el Greater London Council entre 1966 y 1972 estos dos edificios de viviendas sociales situados hoy al borde de la pujante área de negocios de Canary Wharf, sólo separada por las vías del tren (que no es poco) pero sólo conectadas con los antiguos muelles por un paso inferior bajo las vías del tren. […]

Far from the process of ambiguous and controversial representation promoted by the postmodern convulsion that dominated the architectural scene of the early 80s, the work of Norman Foster, aligned with the thought of Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, was promulgated in favor of a technological update of the modernity. His work ponders the mechanical analogies of the modern movement and […]

How should a house on the mountainside be for a family with a person confined to a wheelchair? The client himself had the answer: “Contrary to what you would expect, I do not want a simple house. I want a complex house because the house will define my world”.1 The land where the house is located is located in the […]

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On November 7, 2003 my friend Ángel Sanguino gave me a book published by the Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya titled Aprendiendo de todas sus casas. It gave it to me during a food that a group of friends architects we were doing in Toledo on the first Fridays of every month, and to whose desserts we were reading an article […]

“Since the mid-seventies, Stirling has shown his struggle against the boredom produced by the repetition of modern architecture, against its triviality and its inability to situate itself in historical contours. For this he tried to display a work that was narrative and figurative and, at the same time, abstract and technologically advanced”.1 The architectural work of Stirling goes through the […]

The proposal for this mixed-used building including hotel, cinema, and retail explores a formal response to the site conditions with an alternative contemporary language. Against the monolithic presence of a totem that divides the paths in two, the building becomes a flexible element that blends with the perspective of the resulting streets while respects the pedestrian flow of the public […]

  “Francis Kéré has developed innovative strategies that combine traditional construction materials and methods with modern engineering techniques, and since he founded Kéré Architecture in 2005, his work has gained great recognition, with awards such as the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, the BSI Swiss Architectural Award, the Marcus Prize, Global Holcim Gold Award, and the Schelling Architecture Award.” Francis […]

London had a double birth. On the one hand, there was London proper, what is now known as the City, the city of the merchants and the bourgeoisie, and the city also of the Cathedral, of the bishop. This was the first and most important population, which was not the seat of government, but of commerce, and which had and […]

The end of the first world war in 1918, gave step to a prosperous period of political changes and social revolutions. All these changes had his reflection in the art and in the architecture, and it would be impossible to give a moderately logical explanation of the Russian forefronts, the constructivism or the international style, without the historical context arisen […]

We do not need to return to the primitive cabin to meet again a balance with the nature. The sophisticated technology of the major botanical covered garden of the world is a lesson of ecology and a bet for the use of the recycled materials. The Eden Project was born of the will to show how we can recover, and […]

The architecture requests a certain predisposition before the finding, something similar to a condition of expectation. The pleasure of the discovery is addictive, stimulant from the militancy of the most contumacious of the ingenuities, often intimately related to the sense of the humor and, in last instance, the intelligence. We imagine that precisely to this Alejandro de la Sota refers […]

Critics and unsatisfied of the offers of the modern movement with the statu quo of the epoch, Archigram established during a decade images of an interesting reflexive flow on the cities and his architecture. Amateur was born the group in 1961 with the publication of a magazine produced of way for Peter Cook, David Greene and Mike Webb. The name […]

A house, which was thought to be a model of sustainable architecture, has caused uncertainty between local authorities, real-estate agents and architects’ associations. The reason? For having being constructed by materials that contribute unpublished values. At the moment of thinking about the housing – study that has been constructed the pair of architects Sarah Wigglesworth and Jeremy Till, inevitably it […]

The Scot Archibald Leitch was the first architect specialized in the design and construction of soccer stadiums. It started by raising Ibrox Park in his natal Glasgow before extending his radio of action to all the corners of the Islands. Between his more prominent works there are Highbury, Stamford Bridge, White Hart Lane, Goodison Park, Anfield, Craven Cottage, Fratton Park, […]

We continue with the second part of the interview William J. R. Curtis on the occasion of the reissue of the book “Le Corbusier. Ideas and Forms”. Con respecto a la historia y a la posible continuidad hegeliana de la que hablábamos antes, en el contexto actual, ¿Cree que existe una posición comúnmente aceptada sobre la necesidad de conocerla, tal […]

In the year 2015, coinciding with 50 anniversary of the death of the prolific teacher Le Corbusier, the publishing house Phaidon re-edited the extension of the book Le Corbusier. Ideas and Forms by William J.R Curtis, historian of the architecture, critic, writer, painter and British photographer. William J.R Curtis is specially known by his critique of the history of the modern architecture and his […]

The idea of hoarding the universal history of the architecture, the sculpture and the painting, amazes and pulls down to equal parts. If the chamber of the exchequers forms a part besides a domestic program, we are before a seductora entelequia of to live: the life like permanent dip in the culture; the collection like the representation itself of his […]

In the moment to project the building Florey for the Queens College (St. Clements, Oxford, 1968-71), James Stirling already had seen finished two of his better works: the School of Engineering of the University of Leicester (1959-63) and the library of the Faculty of History for the University of Cambridge (1964-67). Three projects constitute his already mythical “Red Trilogy”, name […]

3º Festival internacional de arquitectura. ARQFESTIVAL 2016, EVENTO INTERNACIONAL DE ARQUITECTURA SE LLEVARÁ A CABO LOS DÍAS 13 Y 14 DE OCTUBRE EN EL TEATRO DIANA. Guadalajara, México, tierra del reconocido arquitecto Luis Barragán, ganador del Premio Pritzker, es sede de la tercera edición de ArqFestival 2016. El Festival incluye conferencias magistrales, presentaciones y proyectos innovadores de destacados despachos y […]

Already from the first visit to Europa Point’s Big huts we saw a great potential this project, so much for his location (orientation privileged N-S, conference on the sea and Africa) as the intrinsic value of the own buildings, for his singularity, since for the big domed spaces of his interior. Our intervention centred on the first moment on eliminating […]

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“Essentials. David Chipperfield Architects 1985-2015”; a retrospective that assembles for the first time in Madrid more than thirty years of professional path of the recognized British architect David Chipperfield. The sample, which will be opened the public in the Museum ICO from September 30, 2015 until January 24, 2016, receives the most relevant projects realized by David Chipperfield in some […]

“Of all the buildings that surround us in the city, are counted those that are called us the attention and, literally, they answer to our look.” The new Kunsthaus of Graz is a museum of art that one communicates with the viandantes across the front, in wait of his answers. His architects, the Britishers Peter Cook and Colin Fournier, projected […]

The New GenerationsFestival 2014: Futurology, will take place in Florence (Palazzina Reale, Holy Maria Novella – Piazza Stazione forms a corner with route Valfonda) on the 28th, November 29 and 30, 2014. This time organized by ‘ Cultural New Generations Association ‘ together with the Architects’ Order of Florencia and the Architects’ Foundation of Florencia, they will contribute the results […]

The classic architecture is a visual language and, as any other language, has his own grammatical procedure. With this premise of item, John Summerson introduces us in the foundations and the origins of the classic architecture and, by means of a historical tour, reveals the classic substratum that one hides in the architecture from the ancient times up to the […]

The principal characteristic of the city of London has been it of not having town planning. Or, at least, her of not having “tracing”, geometrically or compositivo. This idea turned into a real unvariant, almost an obsession, and came up to the end from that, after the frightening “Great Fire” of 1666, which destroyed the city practically completely, the Parliament […]