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Venice Biennale 1991
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Fundamental Trends in City Development
The Reinvented City reflects on externity, the principal feature of a reinvented city. Three basic trends of the city are investigated; "discomposed", "generic" and "segregated" phenomena with the loss of the city as a space of social interaction and communication. Important questions are posed: What is the true public sphere in contemporary societies? What is the contemporary public space corresponding to it? In what way can the city project construct contemporary public space?
People and Space
This book explores new forms and modalities of relations between people and space that increasingly affect the life of the city. The investigation takes as its starting point the idea that in contemporary societies the loss of our relationship with place is a symptom of a breakdown in the relationship between ethics and aesthetics. This in turn has caused a crisis not only in taste, but also in our sense of beauty, our aesthetic instinct, and our moral values. It has also led to the loss of our engagement with the landscape, which is essential for cities to function. The authors argue that new, fertile forms of interaction between people and space are now happening in what they call the ‘i...
Architettura di rara bellezza. Documenti del Festival dell'architettura 2006
Possiamo ancora ricercare una valenza estetica dell'architettura? Soprattutto quando la componente di una comunicazione stereotipata dell'architettura sembra prevalere e in un certo senso annichilire ogni autenticità di espressione figurativa? In una scena mondana sempre più priva di luogo andiamo paradossalmente a rilevare una continua invocazione al bello, senza alcuna consapevolezza ulteriore, salvo quella, a sua volta contraddittoria, di riconoscerne solo il limite relativistico, soggettivo. Il Festival vuole allora misurarsi con questo esteso, rilevante quanto superficiale, bisogno di bellezza, cercando però di reinterpretarne il senso e quindi di conseguenza il ruolo per una possibi...
Office of Architecture in Barcelona
This book presents and analyses the career of architect Carlos Ferrater since the creation of his new studio calledÊOAB (Office of Architecture in Barcelona). With the arrival of young architects to the team, Êthe activity of OAB is not only deployed in the execution of construction projects, but how it is also complemented and enriched by going into depth in other fields such as teaching and academic research. OAB draws on the collaborative nature of Carlos FerraterÕs previous studio, incorporating new ways of understanding the contributions of each team member to generate richer, more varied, and flexible projects. Their most relevant projects are the Beach Promenade in Benidorm, the Mandarin Hotel, the Zaragoza-Delicias Station, House A and Roca Barcelona Gallery, among many others. Recent works and projects presented by means of extensive photoreportages, plans, drawings and QR codes which link the printed matter and the digital world.
