Fuente: Hidden Architecture Fotografías: Joan Massagué (actuales) Barcelona, 1923 Arquitecto: Josep Maria Jujol En 1922 el contratista Evelí Planells encargó un proyecto para una casa unifamiliar en un solar que había comprado en la Gran Vía-Diagonal, en la esquina de la calle Sicilia. El primer proyecto era una casa con un jardín para un médico que tenía su quirófano en la planta baja. La casa iba a ser construida e
Fuente: Aldo van Eyck – Works, Ed. Vincent Ligtelijn. Páginas 134-141. ISBN 3 7643 6012 7. Sonsbeek Exhibition, Arnhem 1965-66 Rietveld, who made the previous pavilion on the same spot, must have approached the problem quite differently, judging from the structure which stood there – frail and weightless – twelve years ago. It was a beautiful thing in an uncontroversial way and widely appreciated f
Fuente: Charles Moore por Gerald Allen, Editorial Gustavo Gili, S.A. Barcelona 1981. Páginas 30-37. ISBN: 84-252-1081-X La necesidad de sorprender y ser diferente, la necesidad de crear a pequeña escala recuerdos de arquitectura monumental y la necesidad de formar parte de un proyecto de un conjunto más grande son factores que están presentes en el primer trabajo de Charles Moore. Y todos se aúnan claramente en el fa
Fuente fotográfica: D’A nº4 , Palma de Mallorca 1989. Lloc i Forma Perdido en el nexo de unión con las experiencias racionalistas de los años 30, y en un momento en que la construcción oscila entre el pintoresquismo y un “estilo internacional” reducido a recetas que permiten soluciones fáciles y de escasa inversión, l’Esglèsia en Es Llombards representa un hito que incorpora al proyecto el d
Source: Architecture and Urbanism : Louis I. Kahn Paperback – 1983. Tohio, ed. Nakamura Photography: Laurian Ghinitoiu From the architect. While Louis Kahn was designing the National Assembly Building in Bangladesh in 1962, he was approached by an admiring Indian architect, Balkrishna Doshi, to design the 60 acre campus for the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, India. Much like his project in Bangladesh, h
Fuente: Akademie Der Künste Dieter Oesterlen (1911-1994) is one of the most important architects of the post-war epoch in Germany. As one of the founders of the Braunschweiger School “he is best known for his special handling of architectural monuments destroyed during the war. He supplemented, transformed and “modernized” churches, castles, etc. and thus showed ways beyond the “tabula rasa
Source and Photography: Various Kay Fisker is one of the most important housing architects in Denmark. The Hornbaekhus is his first housing scheme that has been implemented. Its rational facade is in neo-classicist style. The pleasantly green inner courtyard compensates for the austere appearance of the block. Kay Fisker (1893-1965) Kay Otto Fisker was an architect exponent of a nationally-shaped version of functiona
Photography: Simon García (actuality) | others The Glass House is best understood as a pavilion for viewing the surrounding landscape. Invisible from the road, the house sits on a promontory overlooking a pond with views towards the woods beyond. The house is 55 feet long and 33 feet wide, with 1,815 square feet. Each of the four exterior walls is punctuated by a centrally located glass door that opens onto the lands
Fuente: Ronal Rainer: Das Werk Des Architekten 1927-2003. Ed. Springer-Verlag/Wien – ISBN 3-211-83838-4 Sommerhaus beim Römer-Steinbruch in der pannonischen Landschaft. Aun einem Gefüge langgestreckter, fast fensterloser Mauern aus handwerklich bearbeitetem kalksandstein, unverputzt, durch weinbewachsene Pergolen verbunden kaum als “Haus”, sondern eher wie niedrige Gartenmauern in einer mit Mandelbä
Fuente: Hidden Architecture Housing Develpoment at Giudecca Island Giudecca Island, Venezia, Italy. 1984-1986 Architect: Gino Valle “Al ambiente se ha contrapuesto el monumento; el monumento, además de que está históricamente determinado, tiene una realidad propia y analizable. Podemos, por otra parte, proponernos construir monumentos; pero como se ha observado anteriormente, para hacerlo necesitamos una arquit
Fuente: Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Architectural History Foundation. ISBN: 0-262-11130-6 “The program was simple. Space was needed for about 800,000 books, exhibition areas, staff offices, and a reading room. The program could have been satisfied by a one-story building above ground to be used for exhibitions, reading rooms, and offices, with the books stored underground,
Project: Klockarebackens Funeral Chapel, Höör, Sweden 1972 Architect: Bernt Nyberg Collaborators: Staffan Schultze, Per Iwansson, Mariana Manner, Hjördis Gunnarsson Photagraphy: All images, M. Hall except: 01_OR_1972 courtesy of ARKdes : Architecture and Design Center, Stockholm, Sweden Born 1927 in Ockelbo, Nyberg studied architecture at the KTH in Stockholm, later moving to Lund to work for Klas Anshelm. Since star
Fuente: hidden architecture Londres, 1957 “Esta gente procedía en su mayoría de pequeñas viviendas adosadas, o algo similar, pero siempre con patios o jardines. Solía almorzar con ellos para intentar entender un poco mejor sus preocupaciones, y eran gente orgullosa. Criaban palomas y conejos en sus patios traseros y tendían la ropa allí. Como consecuencia de este contacto con ellos no concebí apartamentos. Dije
Font: Livio Vacchini; Opere e progetti Fotografía: Livio Vacchini; Opere e progetti Losone 1990-97 La palestra di Losone è destinata a militari e civili. Inizialmente il programma di concorso richiedeva la costruzione di una sala a tre campi, riservata alla sola attività sportiva della compagnia militare. Visto l’ampio spazio a disposizione, Vacchini ha pensato che la nuova costruzione potesse assumere caratter