Synopses
Eastern Light. The list of Spanish regions with consolidated architectural personalities of their own seemed to lack the Valencian group of provinces, which nevertheless in the past years has accomplished enough in quality, quantity and variety to merit attention. Endowed with a solid Mediterranean and modern heritage reinforced by close links to the plastic arts, Spain’s Levant is building a new image for itself, aided by projects of the kind carried out by Calatrava, Foster and Grassi in Valencia or by Siza in Alicante.
Contents
Jorge Torres
Modern Valencia
Adela García-Herrera
The 90s in Spain’s Levant
S. Calatrava, ‘Hemisphere’
N. Foster, Congress Center
G. Grassi, Central Library
Á. Siza, University Offices
Buildings: Projects and RealizationsValencia Studios. Carlos Meri concentrates his efforts on serialization and detail precision in a work that verges upon engineering; Íñigo Magro and Miguel del Rey give a contemporary air to the old ceramic industry of Castellón; and Emilio Giménez continues his long-time relationship with the arts through a project for the sculptor Andreu Alfaro.
ArchitectureCarlos Meri
Palmaret Station, Valencia
Magro & Del Rey
Venus Offices, Nules
Emilio Giménez
Design Museum, Rocafort
Alicante Firms. Javier García-Solera and Alfredo Payá belong to the latest generation of young professionals, and also share an elegantly frugal language that is patent in their respective buildings for Alicante’s campus. Vicente Vidal, in expanding one of his own works, goes back to the constructional concerns that have shaped his already long career.
Javier García-Solera
Business School, Alicante
Alfredo Payá
University Museum, Alicante
Vicente Vidal
Industrial Plant, Cocentaina
Books, Exhibitions, PersonalitiesIndividual and Collective Shows. An anthology of Paul Klee arrives in Madrid’s Thyssen Museum from Valencia’s IVAM, while the Reina Sofía organizes a controversial traveling exhibition about Spanish industrial design.
Art / CultureGuillermo Solana
Klee, from IVAM to Thyssen
Vicente Patón
Spanish Industrial Design
Brazilian Heritage. The author of Brasilia’s masterplan, Lucio Costa, dies at the age of 96, while his compatriot and disciple Oscar Niemeyer becomes the first Latin American architect to win the RIBA Gold Medal.
Hugo Segawa
Lucio Costa, 1902-1998
Jorge Sainz
Niemeyer, Tropical Genius
Revisionist Times. Historical themes are enjoying a fecund moment in publishing, illustrated by the updating of a reference manual and the recuperation of an emblematic text belonging to the ecological literature of the sixties.
Focho’s Cartoon
Buckminster Fuller
Various Authors
Books
Interiors, Design, ConstructionDegrees of Transparency. Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron complete their first American work, a winery in California that blends into the landscape through geometry and a stony translucent skin; and Alberto Campo Baeza draws inspiration from Moorish gardens to build a Mallorcan complex of opaque contours around a diaphanous core.
Technique / StyleHerzog & De Meuron
Stone against Light
Dominus Winery, Yountville
Alberto Campo Baeza
A Secret Garden
BIT Center, Inca
To close, for the section on constructional themes and products Ignacio Paricio has on this occasion collaborated with Juan Luis Fumadó in addressing the problem of where to place service ducts and wires; and the director of the Valencian Institute of Modern Art, Juan Manual Bonet, sums up the diverse and stimulating cultural panorama of his region.
I. Paricio & J.L. Fumadó
Where to Place Services
English Summary
Eastern Light
Juan Manuel Bonet
Living Valencia
Luis Fernández-Galiano
The sun of architecture had not risen for some time in the east of Spain. In the past twenty years the Valencian region has witnessed an imbalance between its demographic dimension and the density of cultural construction, and between its economic dynamism and the vitality of the architectural debate. Public administrations proved unable to create a sufficient atmosphere of emulation, just as the School of Architecture and the professional associations failed to produce a landscape of vigorous stimuli. Despite the commendable efforts of some institutions and persons, the Valencian scene fell short of acquiring the critical mass needed to initiate a chain reaction, and outstanding projects that may have served as a fuse burned out with wet gunpowder. The grand opportunity presented by the development of the Turia River area ended in disappointment, the IVAM failed to build a headquarters at a par with its artistic program, and the hapless theater of Sagunto got bogged down in political controversy.
But the wind is changing course. A new generation of architects is creating a fertile panorama of works and projects able to engage in dialogue, free of complexes, with the imported architectures abounding in the region. The disciplined laconism of Valencia and Alicante architects contrasts with the diversity of languages used by the invited voices. Nevertheless, perhaps only with a deliberate stripping and a rigorous silence can they strike a conversation with the babel of artistic tongues being heard on the shores of the Mediterranean. If the communication works, these lands will have enough fuel to kindle the bonfires of architecture, turning fervor into brilliance, and complementing the flames of artifice with the slow fireworks of everyday heat.
The generous welcoming of outsiders is the most distinctive feature of a community that does not need to assert its identity through isolation. Hence the works of Catalans like Miralles and Ferrater will soon be accompanied by projects of Seville’s Vázquez Consuegra and Madrid’s Santander-born Navarro Baldeweg, and this peninsular polyphony is destined to tune in with a young but mature local talent that can likewise benefit from a critical dialogue with international architecture: the embers of the illuminist rationalism of the Tendenza, an unfinished project that Grassi illustrates well with his library; the wise and fractured poetry of Siza, dramatic even in cases where the master imitates himself; the humanistic technology of Foster, competent even when he tries to redeem routine through gesture; and, inevitably, the sculptural engineering of Calatrava, whose provocative mix of inspiration and triviality will continue to arouse clashing sentiments, but whose presence in his native land helps to raise the temperature of the fires that herald the light and warmth of the eastern dawn.
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Ubicación: Comunidad Valenciana
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Proyecto: Ampliación del Museo del Prado
Ubicación: Madrid
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Arquitecto: Miralles, Enric
Proyecto: Parlamento de Escocia, Edimburgo
Ubicación: Reino Unido
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Arquitecto: Rogers, Richard
Proyecto: Ampliación del Palacio de Justicia, Burdeos
Ubicación: Francia
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Arquitecto: Botta, Mario
Proyecto: Sinagoga, Tel Aviv
Ubicación: Israel
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Arquitecto: Van Berkel, Ben; Bos, Caroline
Proyecto: Pabellón de servicios, Amsterdam
Ubicación: Países Bajos
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Arquitecto: Foster, Norman
Proyecto: Intercambiador de transportes, Greenwich, Londres
Ubicación: Reino Unido
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Arquitecto: Sánchez Hevia, Ginés
Proyecto: Reconversión de iglesia en depósito de museo, Ávila
Ubicación: Castilla y León
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Arquitecto: Ruiz-Larrea, César
Proyecto: Ampliación de hotel, Llanes
Ubicación: Asturias
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Arquitecto: Valle, Roberto
Ubicación: Castilla y León
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Ubicación: Canarias
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Arquitecto: Herzog, Jacques; De Meuron, Pierre Koolhaas, Rem / Zaera, Alejandro; Moussavi, Farshid / Cruz, Antonio; Ortiz, Antonio
Proyecto: Paseo marítimo, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Ubicación: Canarias
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Arquitecto: Frechilla, Javier; López Peláez, José Manuel
Proyecto: Ampliación de la Presidencia de la Comunidad de Madrid
Ubicación: Madrid
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Arquitecto: López Cotelo, Víctor
Proyecto: Reconversión del Antiguo Hospital de Granada en Escuela de Arquitectura
Ubicación: Andalucía
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Arquitecto: Rubiño, Ignacio; García Márquez, Pura; Rubiño, Luis
Proyecto: Estadio de fútbol, Jaén
Ubicación: Andalucía
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Arquitecto: Ferrater, Carlos; Torres Nadal, José María
Proyecto: Invernadero principal del Jardín Botánico, Alcalá de Henares
Ubicación: Madrid
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Arquitecto: Plecnik, Joze
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Ubicación: Comunidad Valenciana
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Ubicación: Comunidad Valenciana
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Arquitecto: Calatrava, Santiago
Proyecto: Cine-planetario en la Ciudad de las Artes, Valencia
Ubicación: Comunidad Valenciana
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Arquitecto: Foster, Norman
Proyecto: Palacio de Congresos, Valencia
Ubicación: Comunidad Valenciana
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Arquitecto: Grassi, Giorgio
Proyecto: Biblioteca del Nou Camp de la Universidad, Valencia
Ubicación: Comunidad Valenciana
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Arquitecto: Siza, Álvaro
Proyecto: Rectorado de la Universidad, Alicante
Ubicación: Comunidad Valenciana
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Arquitecto: Meri, Carlos
Proyecto: Estación de Palmaret, Valencia
Ubicación: Comunidad Valenciana
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Arquitecto: Rey, Miguel del; Magro, Íñigo
Proyecto: Oficinas y pabellón de exposiciones, Nules (Castellón)
Ubicación: Comunidad Valenciana
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Arquitecto: Giménez, Emilio
Proyecto: Museo de Diseño, Rocafort (Valencia)
Ubicación: Comunidad Valenciana
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Arquitecto: García-Solera, Javier
Proyecto: Escuela de Negocios, Alicante
Ubicación: Comunidad Valenciana
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Arquitecto: Payá, Alfredo
Proyecto: Museo Universitario, Alicante
Ubicación: Comunidad Valenciana
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Arquitecto: Vidal, Vicente
Proyecto: Planta de cogeneración de la fábrica Jover, Cocentaina (Alicante)
Ubicación: Comunidad Valenciana
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Arquitecto: Costa, Lucio
Ubicación: Brasil
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Arquitecto: Niemeyer, Óscar
Ubicación: Brasil
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Libro / Autor: Friedman, Alice T. Women and the Making of Modern House: A Social and Architectural History. Harry N. Abrams
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Libro / Autor: Frampton, Kenneth. Historia crítica de la arquitectura moderna. Gustavo Gili
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Arquitecto: Kroll, Lucien
Libro / Autor: Atelier Lucien Kroll. Bio Psycho Socio / Eco. L'Harmattan Atelier Lucien Kroll. Bien viellir chez soi. L'Harmattan
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Libro / Autor: Olgyay, Victor. Arquitectura y clima. Gustavo Gili Hough, Michael. Naturaleza y ciudad. Gustavo Gili
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Libro / Autor: Lippard, Lucy R. The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society. The New Press
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Arquitecto: Ramée, Joseph
Libro / Autor: Turner, Paul V. Joseph Ramée: International Architect of a Revolutionary Era. Cambridge University Press
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Arquitecto: Van Eyck, Aldo
Libro / Autor: Strauven, Francis. Aldo van Eyck: The Shape of Relativity. Architectura Natura
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Arquitecto: Lewerentz, Sigurd
Libro / Autor: (SA) Architect Sigurd Lewerentz. Byggförlaget
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Arquitecto: Herzog, Jacques; De Meuron, Pierre
Proyecto: Bodegas Dominus, Yountville, California
Ubicación: Estados Unidos
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Arquitecto: Campo Baeza, Alberto
Proyecto: Centro de Innovación Tecnológica, Inca, Mallorca
Ubicación: Baleares
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Producto / Empresa: Tabique técnico. Knauf Canaleta Rauduo. Rehau / Tabiquería s-41. TDM
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Producto / Empresa: Parafon Overture. Armstrong Phacel 100. Gradhermetic / S18d. Sonebel
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Producto / Empresa: Tetton. Samep Redelec. TDM / Concore II. Tate / TEINRESA / Espacio 2E. Espacio SA
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Producto / Empresa: X-Structure. Staff Electropoloe. Electro-Systems International
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Ubicación: Comunidad Valenciana
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