The literary project "Un árbol en la casa" is a long journey towards the near. This is a book that loses its pages; new ones replace them in a process of continuous renewal. This project arises as a treatise on plants, animals, men, cities, and fields; a treaty without beginning or end.

The architect Óscar Blasco, also a writer by vocation, makes this publication of short stories under the name "Un árbol en la casa". With a subtle and unique narrative, the author combines fantasy and precision through a great language that fades into literature and architecture.
With a light and exact result, the book by Óscar Blasco Lázaro contains a final story, in the form of a pop-up, the result of a commission designed by Plego. The design of this drop-down can be visualized when opening the book, where a tree emerges from inside an abandoned house.

The short stories are grouped into five chapters (Plants, Animals, Men, Cities, and Fields), each of them with twelve units and three parts per chapter. To end as a compilation with a final chapter called Organism.

"Thus, the book is the photograph of a moment in the life of this organism, shaped like a tree, which, installed in my house, feeds on my time and my memory."
Óscar Blasco Lázaro.

The simple-looking stories have a background that goes far beyond a simple clarification of the context. The protagonists of each story, whether beings or objects, invite careful reflection.

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Mariona García.
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133 pages.
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Spanish.
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978-84-09-02599-2.
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2018.
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Óscar Blasco Lázaro (1970) is an architect and landscaper. Author of the book "A tree in the house: a long journey towards the near". He is an architect by the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Barcelona, 1999 Landscape architect with a Master's degree in landscape architecture UPC, 2002 Founding partner of the SCOB architecture and landscape studio, 2005. He is currently a professor at the Master of Landscape Architecture of Barcelona and the Italian Center of Architecture in Milan.
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Published on: June 20, 2021
Cite: "A long journey towards the near. "Un árbol en la casa" by Óscar Blasco Lázaro" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/a-long-journey-towards-near-un-arbol-en-la-casa-oscar-blasco-lazaro> ISSN 1139-6415
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