Arquitectura Viva 150 Centenary Masters

Description

2013 is a year of centennials. Arquitectura Viva commemorates the birth of ten masters of 20th century architecture. The list includes five Spaniards, a Japanese, a Greek, a French-Azerbaijan and two Argentinians. The Spaniards (José Antonio Coderch, Alejandro de la Sota, Miguel Fisac, Antoni Bonet i Castellana and Rafael Aburto) were part of an exceptional generation that, marked by the tragedy of the Civil War, played a key role in making the principles of the Modern Movement take root in Spain. The other five also belong to the second modern generation which helped to introduce and disseminate new architectural ideas beyond Europe – Tange in Japan, Doxiadis in Greece and Africa, Williams and Álvarez in Argentina –, and then to reassess them from social and urban principles (Candilis in France).

CONTENTS

• Roberto Segre / Paradoxes of a Genius, Oscar Niemeyer, 1907-2012
• Poetics of Lightness, Alejandro de la Sota, 1913-1996
• Organs, Bones and Skins, Miguel Fisac, 1913-2006
• Mediterranean Essence, José Antonio Coderch, 1913-1984
• Complexity and Contradiction, Antonio Bonet, 1913-1989
• Autistic Modernity, Rafael Aburto, 1913-
• Social Tapestries, Georges Candilis, 1913-1995
• Visions of Globalization, Constantinos Doxiadis, 1913-1975
• Permanent Invention, Amancio Williams, 1913-1989
• Rationalist Rigor, Mario R. Álvarez, 1913-2011
• Technology and Humanism, Kenzo Tange, 1913-2005

Art / Culture

• Estrella de Diego / Tricks and Labyrinths, Cristina Iglesias at MNCARS
• Ángel M. García-Posada / Roots and Wings, Ai Weiwei at CAAC
• Focho’s Cartoon / Masters Centenary
• Books

Technique / Construction

• Nieto Sobejano / Joanneum Museum, Graz
• Luis Maldonado / Raw and Boiled
• Innovation
• Richard Ingersoll / Roberto Segre, 1934-2013

96 pages, ills colour & bw / 24 x 30 cm / English, Spanish