A vueltas como estamos siempre bombardeados con rankings y parametrizaciones de dónde se vive mejor y en función de qué, el debate en nuestros país vuela de Madrid a Barcelona, pasa por Zaragoza, Valencia o Bilbao, alcanza Sevilla o directamente estalla en una liga más vertical en la que juegan nuestros pueblos contra las capitales de provincias con la manida […]
En “La arquitectura del poder -cómo los ricos y poderosos dan forma a nuestro mundo”, Deyan Sudjic repasa la historia de la arquitectura enlazando nombres de arquitectos y las obras que estos llevaron a cabo por encargos políticos, gobernantes, ejecutivos y presidentes de grandes corporaciones, en un ejercicio que señala una cierta connivencia -extrapolable sin ningún género de dudas hasta […]
La máquina ha de ser alimentada, el progreso es imparable. No importe adonde miremos, la irrefrenable codicia colonizadora envía sus máquinas, ya sea a un gran secarral aquí al lado o a Guinea para ocuparse del espacio vacío, sea éste de interés social, turístico, económico u otra cosa. Sólo importa que la voraz alimaña no se detenga. Oscuras profecías cinematográficas […]
Contemporary and avant-garde culture, countervanguardia and perhaps underground culture, pop culture and some types of subculture as well as any anti-mainstream movement are likely to advance the evolution of aesthetic (if still existing) and thought issues and their own definition It implies this subversive positioning. It is difficult to clearly state what a thing is and what is not; when […]
In general, and except for honorable exceptions, the architects write regular. In fact, the fact of approaching with such passion a task for which we have not been specifically trained has merit. To support our ideas and convictions we often use a recurring tool: the appointment, a brief endorsement of our argument thanks to the timely support of an authoritative […]
Unintentionally wanting, our beloved Bea and Paco (political correctness by placing Beatriz in front) start their latest article for La Ciudad Viva1 with a cultured reference, from those of ETSAM castiza, to an article from the ‘50s. From that tightrope swing, in which few can maneuver, jump without quarreling to quote Argan, introducing in his investigative virtuosity a certain cross reference […]
Have you realized that we have not written “on the relevancy of the digital thing in the architecture”? The article to which there in-cite us our darlings bRijUNi, waiting for my onslaught of miura, is going to allow me, to open some ideas. And eye; far from being obliging or presumptuous, I am going to try to speak not from […]
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 […]
Up to the date we have crossed of the hand of diverse architects, some of the most diverse and varied activities that they recover, well of complementary form to the activity more tradition of the architect or as principal activity. Today we enter the wide world of the “critique”, and that better way of it doing that of José María […]
Couples & Co. 22 Mirror Stories of Spanish Architecture proposes one of many possible readings on the recent history of the Spanish architecture. Across twenty-two studies organized concerning pairs, every equipment looks in a mirror where to discover how the latter sixteen years can be unfolded in two symmetrical and constant visions in the time though asymmetric and discontinuous in […]
Passed only sixteen years of the century twenty-one, this short period of time well might divide in two equal periods of eight years placing in the center of the above mentioned period the epicentre and explosive of the change in the structures, the strategies and the architectural production. Couples & Co. 22 SPIEGELGESCHICHTEN SPANICHER ARCHITEKTEN, proposes one of many possible readings […]
In 1974 Mariano Bayón interviews an Alejandro of the Jack isolated from the Academy, the margin already of the cultural paraphernalia of the architecture, an environment of the one that is separated voluntarily: “I will write something in a builders’ magazine, for builders” 1. Undoubtedly, the interest of Jack for the questions you will discipline they remove him from a […]
To plant primeira dispón of dous quarters with baths; and not baixo cuberta hai a quarter with dressing room and bath, as well as estudo-library. The Meetings IT ROASTS in the MEEYAB they have been celebrated for 6 consecutive years, in this book we could have compiled unpublished texts of the particular point of view on the sustainability and César […]
Continuing with some of the ideas that there was debated last October 7 in the Roca Madrid Gallery inside the first one of the “4 meetings Al Borde de la Crítica 2014” whose initial review appeared in Arquia’s blog, we us would like to detain now in one of the topics that arose in the round of later questions to the […]
Roca, in collaboration with the Escuela Politécnica Superior CEU San Pablo, organizes the cycle of days ‘At the edge of the critique’, that has as aim think about the theory and architectural critique of the hand of prestigious professionals of the sector. These days will celebrate from October 7, 2014 to March 25, 2015 in the Roca Madrid Gallery. ‘At […]
Portfolio Speed Dating is a contest with an agile and new format organized by Rock, which tries to offer to students of design and architecture the opportunity to present his portfolio to recognized professionals of the sector. Curators: BeatRIz villaNUeva caJIde e fRancIsco JavIeR casas coBo de bRijUNi architects. TARGET Your graphical portfolio explains and one shows your better ideas […]
Session 1: New inhabitants. New audiovisual looks The factor that has marked the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the XXI is, surely, the effective globalisation of the planet. Of all the new ways to do, the most valued information is the audiovisual, a mechanism globalizador and with critical possibilities comprised by the majority of the cultures […]
In the year 2007 the magazine Icon, to celebrate his number 50, entrusts 50 manifests to some other artists, designers, town planners and architects between whom we can mention to Rem Koolhaas, Greg Lynn, Zaha Hadid or Steven Holl. His publishing house, which was beginning with the judgment: “The age of the manifest has ended”, it ended up by claiming […]
On Monday, the 13th from May to 20:00 h is third and last of the meetings ” At the edge of the critique: Silence and critique ” with Anatxu Zabalbeascoa (El País newspaper), Fredy Massad (ABC), Néstor Montenegro (European University of Madrid) and Curro González de Canales (Architectural Association). Round table moderated by Michael Lasso of the Vega (The Director Department Urbanism […]
“…all the historians of the art of traditional orientation, he suffers a trend to value excessively the effect of the books and the theories for the royal creation of the art and the architecture…” Sybil Moholy-Nagy about Reyner Banham The first half of the 20th century was a period where the manifests proliferated in a horizon of historical and social […]
The modern thing, or probably the new thing, always has happened for being something good. One wanted or was chasing to be modern, or it to seem, until it fell down in the account of which the modern thing was yesterday and which the sigh of the present was inasible, and the aspiration of modernity, also. The history and the […]
Concerning the year 2007 Alejandro Zaera was negotiating with the EMV the near construction of his building of social housings in Carabanchel. It can be that it was there when one informed that these common corridors that, in the style of the famous streets in the sky of the Smithson, it had raised as place of local meeting and collective […]
Some time ago, someone who was devoting himself to the organization of events of international character related to the architecture, was saying to us that there were great more people interested in speaking that in listening. Coming from someone with experience and success in this type of complex plannings us turned out to be strange because we had been witnesses […]
It could result fun, if it was not because we are speaking of a very serious gentleman and of big prestige, read a text like which Patrik Schumacher (partner of Zaha Hadid from published does in the year 2010 in The Architects’ Journal doing an apologia of the parametric style (parametricism in English), worthy of time very ancient. The text, […]
Since you will know already many, last week we were talking in the Laboratorio de Ideas del COAG in the Colexio Oficial de Arquitectos de Galicia headquarters in Vigo. The labor of documentation that the collaborators of the Laboratory have been and realize is extensísima and very organized, so I am not going to fall down in doing a chronicle that […]
That a teacher is the author of the building where it gives his teaching it is a luck for the pupils, as for the inspiration and motivation for the nearness of the author, and probably a risk for the teacher, submitted constant to critique on, as minimum, the suitable functioning of the building. This possibility did not intimidate the project […]
With the end that an architect share a moment intimate, in the measure that wish, with other two people, in front of a heterogeneous audience, of such form that the architecture contaminate of unexpected elements in front of an uncertain public, the Foundation Architecture COAM and Slaughterhouse of Madrid organise Ménage à trois. Ménage à trois Works under the following […]