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Spain
An investigation of the influences and evolution of modern Spain’s underappreciated, but foundational, architecture. Spain’s remarkable twentieth-century architecture evolved against a turbulent background of revolution, civil war, dictatorship, and transition to democracy. Architecture played a key role in Spain’s struggle out of poverty and isolation, and its search for identity in the modern world. This book examines Spanish architecture from the roots of Modernism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the present, analyzing significant figures and their works in relation to their political, social, and cultural contexts, as well as their contributions to architecture as a whole. From the austere, local Modernism of the 1920s, the influence of international trends in the ’30s, the renewed, “Organicist” Modernism of the ’50s and ’60s, to the flourishing public architecture of the late twentieth century and beyond, Spain provides a penetrating account of the country’s rich and varied built environment.
Domus
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Real Space
This internationally-acclaimed Catalan partnership combines the Modernist challenge with frequent references to the Mediterranean and Catalan traditions. Best known for their design of the Olympic Village in Barcelona, they insist on architectural design as a vehicle for cultural pluralism.
New Building Today
Speakers were asked to address but a single question: What are the five best examples of architecture in your country of the last five years?
Barcelona International Convention Centre
The CCIB is one of the main structures housing the 2004 Forum of Cultures (Barcelona) and one of the anchors of the new Diagonal Mar district. It is not properly a building, but a set of objects with different functions, clients and programs, united by a set of predefined bands that channel this plurality: A hotel and office building rise on the northern edge; large exhibition and convention halls are located in the central strip; and public lobbies, restaurants and small conference halls face the sea and the gardens to the south. A combination of massive concrete and high-precision, large-span steel, the structure is simultaneously conventional and monstruous, banal and superhuman. With an introduction by Aaron Betsky, this book tells the story of the CCIB through the voices of the architects, engineers, clients, consultants and artists that have contributed to their its making.
Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories
Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories brings together the papers presented at the Sixth International Congress on Construction History (6ICCH, Brussels, Belgium, 9-13 July 2018). The contributions present the latest research in the field of construction history, covering themes such as: - Building actors - Building materials - The process of building - Structural theory and analysis - Building services and techniques - Socio-cultural aspects - Knowledge transfer - The discipline of Construction History The papers cover various types of buildings and structures, from ancient times to the 21st century, from all over the world. In addition, thematic papers address specific themes and highlight new directions in construction history research, fostering transnational and interdisciplinary collaboration. Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories is a must-have for academics, scientists, building conservators, architects, historians, engineers, designers, contractors and other professionals involved or interested in the field of construction history.
Barcelona
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建築と都市
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