JOSE ANTONIO CODERCH HOUSES

Description

José Antonio Coderch de Sentmenat was born in 1913 and died en Barcelona in 1984. These years delimit his life and work. But the great internal coherence of his thinking, distilled within his architecture, goes beyond these temporal limits, his own idiosyncrasy and the reduced geographical framework where it developed, to provide a reflection on architecture from an ethical standpoint. Although, recognised as the most important catalan architect after World War II, this implicit depth is perhaps one of the reasons his work has not been widely disseminated.
This new edition in hardcover book format of 2G issue devoted to José Antonio Coderch presents a collection of houses constructed by the Catalan architect. It includes 11 houses, starting with the Ugalde House, the great work that marks the initiation of his mature phase. In it, not only does Coderch definitely embrace the language of modern architecture, nuanced by his respect for context, but also hones his own spatial conception of the house in nature. It is the experimental prototype for the following houses. In ordering these intuitions, the free lines of the first are not repeated.

Table of contents:

Introductions:
Homage à Coderch by Kenneth Frampton
Introduction to the Architecture of an Ethics and 1 + 10 Houses by José Antonio Coderch by Rafael Diez

Works and Projects:
Ugalde House, Caldes d’Estrac, Barcelona, 1951-1953
Ballvè House, Camprodón, Girona, 1957
Olano House, Comillas, Cantabria, 1957
Biosca House, Igualada, Barcelona, 1961
Luque House, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, 1964-1966
Gili House, Sitges, Barcelona, 1965-1966
Entrecanales House, La Moraleja, Madrid, 1966
Rovira House, Canet de Mar, Barcelona, 1967
Soler-Badia House, Igualada, Barcelona, 1969-1971
Zóbel House, Sotogrande, Cádiz, 1970-1972
Güell House, Barcelona, 1971

Biography

nexus
It Isn’t Geniuses We Need Right Now and Letter to Alison Smithson by José Antonio Coderch
Coderch: Ugalde, Girasol and Trade by Oriol Bohigas
Coderch Lamp (1952) by Elías Torres

144 pages / 30 x 23 cm / English