The 1980s will go down in history as a pink decade: a prosperous, conformist, light, made-up, and sentimental decade. A decade of pink politics like Reagan’s rosy cheeks or Gorbachev’s outstretched hand, like González’s ideas or Mitterrand’s deeds. A
"Postmodern architecture is the architecture of Reaganism." Among many leftist architects and critics, this kind of statement has become a cliché. Pseudo-historical nostalgia, invented traditions, courting a clientele of new wealth, populist rhetoric
Berlin has throughout the 20th century been a great laboratory for architectural experimentation. If the Thirties had the Siedlungen and the Fifties the Hansaviertel, the decade of the Eighties was witness to the spectacular feat of the International
Some architectural commissions are truly poisoned gifts. And that must have been the case with the one we are discussing now: a gym and sports center built on top of each other, one on top of the other, near Charlottenburg Palace and with the require
Began in 1983, the architect’s professional studio in Houston is an ongoing project that has seen multiple variations of a live and work environment through the years. Additions, alterations, subtractions, and transformations have comprised an ensemb
The site for the 10,000 square feet new printing workshop of Houston Fine Art Press was a distressed 39 feet wide by 300 feet long sliver of land located in one of southwest Houston’s industrial warehouse districts. Suggesting a factory-like characte
One of Legorreta's best-known works is the Monterrey bank headquarters, designed in 1984. Monterrey is a young, thriving industrial city full of life, but with an extreme climate, which was a determining factor in the design of the building. The exte
Paris is a party. Or at least that's what the official propaganda wanted us to believe. As the climax of July 14 approached, the number of inaugurations, festivals, and events increased. One of the most significant was “Magiciens de la Terre,” the gr
The 1937 Paris World's Fair demonstrated that changes had taken place in architecture: the Palais de Chaillot, the German Pavilion by Albert Speer, and the Soviet Pavilion by Boris M. Iofan were the most significant representations of the New Monumen
Ei empeño por aplicar otas artes y otros artistas a nuestras obras de arquitectura, la colaboración con Juan Bordes está resultando particularmente importante. He contado con su ayuda en varios proyectos, tres de los cuales -Reus, Madrid y el Palau-
Anthony Caro offers a description that sounds whimsical for the two large outdoor structures he has erected on the grounds of his permanent summer retreat in upstate New York; he calls them “sculpture-architectures.” But the work itself is anything b
Adolf Loos lived through a particularly eventful and decisive period in modern European history. He was born in the year that saw the end of the Franco-Prussian War, with the defeat of the French Empire, and died in 1933, the year the Nazis came to p
The truth is that France, the cradle of so much architectural culture and an incomparable source of the art of living, has produced few fruits. Granted, there are Christian de Portzamparc, Bernard Tschumi (a naturalized Swiss citizen), and Jean Nouve
Halfway through the film, they enter the boy's house, and, if the boy is modern, against the window, backlit, the silhouette of a Tizio is silhouetted. The television, which gives off a cheerful and changing light, is a Sony. It took Tizio a long tim
Frankfurt is politically and economically committed to formidable economic and commercial development. It is assumed that through effort and investment, it will become one of Europe's leading commercial centers and the hub of all routes closest to th
Gunnar Birkerts is a rather inconsistent architect in terms of his overall body of work. After his academic period in Stuttgart, where he studied alongside the Weissenhof Siedlung in the years following World War II, he moved to the United States in
La década rosa
Arquitectura y política en la era de Reagan: del posmoderno a la deconstrucción
Luis Fernández-Galiano
La década rosa
Tránsito trivial por los años ochenta
Mary McLeod
Arquitectura y política en la era de Reagan
Del posmoderno a la deconstrucción
Arquitectura
Vicente Patón
Relaciones peligrosas
Centro de Ciencia, de Stirling
Antonio Miranda
Funcional y orgánico
Un gimnasio de los Baller
Richard Ingersoll
El espíritu de los silos
Carlos Jiménez en Houston
Louise Noelle Merelles
El desafío de la escala
Legorreta en Monterrey
Arte/Cultura
Juan Antonio Ramírez
El ocaso de los magos
Otakar Mácel
Suprematismo y arquitectura
Óscar Tusquets
Juan Bordes, escultor
Deyan Sudjic
Las 'esculpitecturas' de Caro
Francisco de Gracia
Retomo a Loos
Redacción
Libros
Técnica/Estilo
Ginés Sánchez Hevia
Cuestión de equilibrios
Daniel Gómez Valcárcel
Transformar lo cotidiano
Justo Isasi
‘King Size Frankfurter’
Pedro Urzáiz
Duchamp juega al dominó
Redacción
Breves
Marina Waisman
Un vacío hermético
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Arquitecto: Stirling, James
Proyecto: Centro de Ciencia, Berlín
Ubicación: Alemania
Pages 25 -27
Arquitecto: Baller, Hinrich e Inke
Proyecto: Gimnasio y polideportivo, Berlín
Ubicación: Alemania
Pages 28 -31
Arquitecto: Jiménez, Carlos
Proyecto: Casa-estudio y Fine Arts Press, Houston, Tejas
Ubicación: Estados Unidos
Pages 32 -33
Arquitecto: Legorreta, Ricardo
Proyecto: Banco en Monterrey
Ubicación: México
Pages 36 -38
Pages 39 -41
Pages 42 -43
Pages 44 -45
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Arquitecto: Loos, Adolf
Libro / Autor: Gravagnuolo, Benedetto. Adolf Loos: teoría y obras. Nerea
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Arquitecto: Ambasz, Emilio
Libro / Autor: (SA) Emilio Ambasz: The Poetics of the Pragmatic. Rizzoli
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Libro / Autor: Banham, Reyner. La Atlántida de hormigón. Nerea
Pages 48 -49
Arquitecto: Venezia, Francesco
Libro / Autor: (SA) Francesco Venezia. COA Madrid
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Libro / Autor: Ramírez, Juan Antonio. Arte prehistórico y primitivo. Anaya
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Libro / Autor: (SA) Issey Miyake: Photographs by Irving Penn. Little, Brown and Company
Page 49
Arquitecto: Scarpa, Carlo
Libro / Autor: Albertini, Bianca; Bagnoli, Sandro. Scarpa: la arquitectura en el detalle. Gustavo Gili
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Libro / Autor: Fernández, Christian. Diseño, comunicación y nuevas tecnologías. Aram Ediciones
Page 49
Ubicación: Estados Unidos
Libro / Autor: Norberg-Schulz, Christian. L'architettura del Nuovo Mondo: tradizione e sviluppo nell'architettura americana. Officina
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Ubicación: Brasil
Libro / Autor: (SA) Arquiteturas no Brasil: Anos 80. Projeto
Pages 52 -53
Arquitecto: Wilmotte, Jean-Michel
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Pages 56 -57
Arquitecto: Murphy Jahn
Proyecto: Torre de la Feria, Frankfurt
Ubicación: Alemania
Pages 58 -59
Arquitecto: Birkerts, Gunnar
Proyecto: Torre Domino's Pizza
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Arquitecto: Piano, Renzo
Proyecto: Remodelación de la fábrica Fiat en Lingotto, Turín
Ubicación: Italia
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Arquitecto: Pei, Ieoh Ming / Foster, Norman
Proyecto: Pirámide del Louvre, París King's Cross, Londres
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Arquitecto: Graves, Michael
Proyecto: Ampliación de Whitney Museum, Nueva York
Ubicación: Estados Unidos
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Arquitecto: Rossi, Aldo Nakamura, Toshio / Kleihues, Josef Paul
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