Atmosphere and climate. In one of his writings, Olafur Eliasson speaks about the atmospheric time.1 In the introduction to the above-mentioned text, The Museums are Radical, Eliasson develops a small statement of the interaction between time and energy. I do not know exactly why it has turned into artist of head-board of many architects, but it is necessary to admit […]
Erased by bombing during the Korean War, North Korea’s trophy capital of Pyongyang was entirely rebuilt from scratch from 1953, in line with the vision of the nation’s founder, Kim Il Sung. Designed as an imposing stage set, it is a place of grand axial boulevards linking gargantuan monuments, lined with stately piles of distinctly Korean flavor, to be “national in […]
“His photographs are poetic monuments built at intermediate moments that precede or recall major social and industrial changes, which leave traces in the space we inhabit”. In time, it is a journey through the work of Carlos Cánovas from the 80s to the present through 128 photographs grouped in six successive series: Tapias (1980), Extramuros (1983-1990), Vallès Oriental (1990), Landscape […]
Iñaki Bergera discovered on a trip along the West Coast of the United States a desolate landscape, apparently barren, that exuded beauty. The beauty of everyday life His narrative purity. Service stations that, dismantled at the beginning of the 90s, gave way to the services of the multinationals. Abandoned gas stations. Ruined. Blurred icons but living witnesses of a time […]
Since seekers of effective surprises our creative capacity can remain reduced by the existence of too many caps of information. Impeded by a dense coverage of unconscious hypotheses, inherited concepts and not expressed ideas. Only we manage to liberate ourselves in an effective way when, from the practice of a lateral thought, we are capable of preventing the preconceived valuations, […]
After expiring more than one century, the cinema, the seventh art called and more young woman of all of them, the most ancient has been related by other six, between them the Architecture, possibly. Relations that enough times have been analyzed and from diverse points of view, though always new someone arises, for example, might propose impertinent studies him as: the […]
Desde hoy hasta el 3o de junio de 2018 podrás disfrutar de un 20% de descuento en las compras de tus libros favoritos en la tienda on line de la editorial Recolectores Urbanos. ¿Cómo? Muy sencillo, primero debes registrarte, si no lo estás ya, es un formulario muy sencillo. Una vez seleccionado el ejemplar o ejemplares y añadidos a la cesta, simplemente tendrás que introducir el […]
On Sunday, the 12th of October, 1924, the Deutschland German transatlantic moored in a wharf of the West Side of Manhattan, between his passengers they were the Erich Mendelsohn architect and the filmmakers Erich Pommer and Fritz Lang, , apparently, it annotated the latter in his diary that it had seen «a street, illuminated, as if it was by day, for neons, all of them aggressive, […]
The exhibition ImagenSubliminal. Scenes of Spanish Architecture it offers a look on the professional work of the equipment of photographers and architects ImagenSubliminal (Miguel de Guzmán and Rocío Romero), those who from beginning of the 21st century come photographing good part of the architecture of interest produced in Spain. A complex, unfinished and many-sided portrait that includes so much architectures at the […]
This work gathers eight interviews to the first women dedicated to the architecture in Galicia, and the statement of the arquitectas contributes us in his professional and social context (without forgetting the personal thing), constructing a history that goes from the 40s to the current importance. There is accompanied every interview of a brief biographical annotation, a photography and a […]
The sample produced by the ICO Foundation, crosses the vital and professional path of one of the architects’ more creative companies of the 20th century in Spain, members of the generation of 25. The Museum ICO presents from next October 4 the exhibition: Carlos Arniches and Martín Domínguez “The Architecture and the Life”.. The sample produced by the Foundation ICO, crosses […]
1. The world in the one that developed the history of the Bauhaus was very different from the current one, though his influence in the art, the design and the architecture is recognized still in a very clear way. El mundo en el que se desarrolló la historia de la Bauhaus era muy distinto al actual, aunque su influencia en […]
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The photography joins as artistic discipline in the art in the first decades of s. The XXth, and we might say that in the 21st century already it is a way of expression totally consolidated, probably for his wide possibilities to create images with the maximum possible realism and that in turn it offers a wide range of possibilities of […]
Hypochondriac, suffering from syndrome of asperger, obsessive – compulsive maniac of the work, perfectionist of the sound and of the silence … Glenn Gould‘s eccentricities helped to popularize the works for J. S. Bach’s keyboard so much as his talent and personality. Between his eccentricities, certainly, one finds his chair. The proximity with which the Canadian pianist was placing on […]
What? To explain the happened. In relation to the drawing, as necessary tool for the expression of the project, the contemporary architecture already does not conceive without the inflation of the graphical representation of the plane, an inflation parallel to the bureaucratic growth of the written documentation of the own project, fruit of the obligation of use, the majority of […]
From today until January 31, 2018 you will be able to enjoy 10% of discount in the purchases of your favorite books of the ediciones asimétricas publishing house on line shop. How? Very simple, the first you must register, if you it are not already, it is a very simple form. Once selected the copy or copies and added to the […]
Gabriele Basilico (Milan 1944) is a photographer of recognized international prestige rewarded as prize Astroc, Osella d’Oro, prize INU, etc. Formed as architect, his images resort frequently to the urban landscape as source of inspiration. The observation of the relations with the constructed environment occupies a fundamental place inside his visual production. In this respect it is called a series […]
El Museo ICO inaugura la exposición “Gabriele Basilico. Entropía y espacio urbano“, primera gran retrospectiva en España del conocido como “El fotógrafo de la ciudad“. La muestra se enmarca en la Sección Oficial de PHotoEspaña 2017 y podrá verse hasta el próximo 10 de septiembre. Comisariada por Ramón Esparza y con la colaboración de Giovanna Calvenzi y el Studio Gabriele […]
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“The president” (Wild in the Streets), directed by Barry Shear, had the premiere in the convulsed May, 68. It belongs to a group of movies that will affect in the new power of an unincluded youth: Riot on Sunset Street, Dreyfuss, 1967; Privilege, Watkins, 1967; I love you, Alice B. Toklas, Averback, 1968; Alice’s Restaurant, Penn, 1969; Performance, Cammell y […]
After Antonio’s steps or as his fingerprints continue. This number of engawa 20 “After Antonio Jiménez Torrecillas’s steps” divides in two parts. The first one where we have assembled the most intimate texts that have come to us on the part of acquaintances or relatives of Antonio and one comes second where they find the most analytical texts of his […]
ArchiMaps is a guides’ new application of architecture for Smartphone and Tablet. Each of his maps, centred on a certain city or region, shows more than 250 works of architecture of all the epochs, carefully selected. Simple and functional. The structure of the application is simple. It is possible to navigate upon every ArchiMap in way map and in way […]
On the occasion of the recent inaugurated exhibition ‘Chamber and model. Photography of models of architecture in Spain, 1925-1970‘ in the ICO Museum we have had the opportunity to support a small conversation the commissioner of the exhibition, Iñaki Bergera on this first honoring realized in Spain to these two systems of representation of the architecture. “The cities, the monuments, […]
The nightmare of a company submissive and controlled across the perverse mechanisms of the advertising. This it is the distopía that John Carpenter raises in “They Live”. The director already had showed us the bitter face of the big cities at the end of the seventies. The violence and the lack of comunication in “Assault on Precinct 13” (1976), the […]
The ICO Museum inaugurates the exhibition ‘Chamber and model. Photography of models of architecture in Spain, 1925-1970’, that will be opened until the next May 14. This project is promoted by the Department of Promotion, organized and produced with the support of the ICO Foundation and has possessed the collaboration of PHotoEspaña as well as of the project of investigation […]
In 1976 it had the premiere “Network. An implacable world” of Sidney Lumet. The movie turned out to be visionary in several aspects. On the one hand, it was advancing already the voracity of the means to catch viewers beyond any ethical consideration. In her we can see the transition of the informative programs towards a media version of the […]
Canva‘s idea arose when Melanie Perkins was giving lessons of programs of graphical design in the university and realized that the students had difficulties to learn the basic thing. Together with Cliff Obrecht, co-founder of Canva, Melanie created Fusion Books, a tool of design on line that was helping students and teachers to create his own yearbooks. Rapidly they noticed […]
El ATLAS de Arquitectura Europea Contemporánea reúne por primera vez la totalidad de los proyectos nominados al Premio de Arquitectura Contemporánea de la Unión Europea – Premio Mies van de Rohe, desde su primera edición en 1988 hasta su décimocuarta, en el 2015. 2881 proyectos que cuentan un viaje a través de la multiplicidad y variedad de arquitecturas que han […]
At the beginning of 1923 and for order by Walter Gropius, Edmund Lill it realized a photographic article of the factory of molds for shoes Fagus in Alfeld a. d. Leine (Germany) constructed between 1911 and 1913. As Annemarie Jaeggi explains in his book Fagus. Industriekultur zwischen Werkbund und Bauhaus (Jovis Berlin, 1998), treats itself about the second occasion in […]