(1948-2009) 

Habitual contributor to cultural magazines and journals – in 1985 he wrote his first article for the then newly born AV?Monographs, as Luis Fernández-Galiano recalled in a recent text published in Arquitectura Viva 126 – , the art historian and critic Juan Antonio Ramírez was Chaired Professor in Art History at Madrid’s Universidad Autónoma and advisor to several publishers, aside from being the author of over thirty books, among them some directly related with architecture, such as Construcciones ilusorias. Arquitecturas descritas, arquitecturas pintadas (Alianza, 1983), La arquitectura en el cine. Hollywood, la edad de oro (Hermann Blume, 1986 and Alianza, 1993), La metáfora de la colmena. De Gaudí a Le Corbusier (Siruela, 1998) or, more recently, Edificios-cuerpo (Siruela, 2003). El objeto y el aura (Akal, 2009) was the last work published by this great scholar, whose original view of art, aesthetics and architecture have turned his researches on the historical avant-gardes, the post-war comic or the architectures of cinema, into reference works for the young generations of artists and historians.