METALOCUS is very pleased to invite you to the launch of the book 'Invenciones: Nueva York vs. Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, Piranesi' by José Juan Barba which will take place on Wednesday, May 6 at CSIC Scientific Bookshop in Madrid at 7:30pm.
We recently presented José Juan Barba's latest book: Invenciones: Nueva York vs. Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, Piranesi. A thorough analysis of Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi and great printmaker G.B. Piranesi's work and drawings which aims to reveal new relations and connections between their work and ideas.

We would like to invite you all to this event in which the author will be accompanied by historian Francisco Javier Gómez Espelosín, architect Pilar Chias and architect Luis Fernández-Galiano, who introduces the book with a preface entitled "Black Brains".
 
The launch will take place on Wednesday 6 May at 7:30pm at CSIC Scientific Bookshop (c/ Duque de Medinaceli, 6. Madrid).
 
'Inventions' was the title of an exhibition held in Hannover in 1981 which gathered together graphic work by different architects  around the work of G.B. Piranesi. The drawings displayed here were not intended to reflect the pre-construction phase but to establish a metalinguistic discourse. The exhibition seeked to identify a non-textual narrative as powerful as the Venetian architect and able to suggest new points of view for architecture in a moment of crisis.

The bicentennial celebration of Piranesi's death took place only three years before Hannover's exhibition, in 1978. It revealed two different ways of understanding his work, a first approach that strictly referred to style and a second and more interesting metalinguistic interpretation. Besides, two of the books that best reflect our contemporaneity were published during this three-year period between both exhibitions: Delirious New York by Rem Koolhaas and The Manhattan Transcripts by Bernard Tschumi.
 
Just like Piranesi moved from Venezia to Rome, these two European architects went from London to the Rome of our time, Manhattan, in order to develop, exhibit and present a new way of understanding contemporary architecture in a time of crisis and uncertainty.

In Architecture, most of the views and discourses outlining what happened during this decade have been presented as negative processes: the end of Modernity or the consolidation of the stylistic disintegration that gave way to 'Po-Mo' or postmodernism. This book seeks to outline a different vision, far removed from pristine views and selective scientific approaches, that presents more contemporary views, sometimes retroactive and always more complex, inclusive and nearer to reality. Architecture visions which include the observers, the users. A presentation of the Architecture of places, as opposed to the architecture of prisms and solids.
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José Juan Barba.
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Invenciones: Nueva York vs. Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, Piranesi.
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Number of pages.- 368 pages.
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Universidad de Alcalá de Henares.
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Spanish.
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9788416133444.
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José Juan Barba (1964) architect from ETSA Madrid in 1991. Special Mention in the National Finishing University Education Awards 1991. PhD in Architecture ETSAM, 2004. He founded his professional practice in Madrid in 1992 (www.josejuanbarba.com). He has been an architecture critic and editor-in-chief of METALOCUS magazine since 1999, and he advised different NGOs until 1997. He has been a lecturer (in Design, Theory and Criticism, and Urban planning) and guest lecturer at different national and international universities (Roma TRE, Polytechnic Milan, ETSA Madrid, ETSA Barcelona, UNAM Mexico, Univ. Iberoamericana Mexico, University of Thessaly Volos, FA de Montevideo, Washington, Medellin, IE School, U.Alicante, Univ. Europea Madrid, UCJC Madrid, ESARQ-U.I.C. Barcelona,...).

Maître de Conférences IUG-UPMF Grenoble 2013-14. Full assistant Professor, since 2003 up to now at the University of Alcalá School of Architecture, Madrid, Spain. And Jury in competitions as Quaderns editorial magazine (2011), Mies van der Rohe Awards, (2010-2024), Europan13 (2015). He has been invited to participate in the Biennale di Venezia 2016 as part "Spaces of Exception / Spazi d'Eccezione".

He has published several books, the last in 2016, "#positions" and in 2015 "Inventions: New York vs. Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, Piranesi " and collaborations on "Spaces of Exception / Spazi d'Eccezione", "La Mansana de la discordia" (2015), "Arquitectura Contemporánea de Japón: Nuevos territorios" (2015)...

Awards.-

- Award. RENOVATION OF SEGURA RIVER ENVIRONMENT, Murcia, Sapin, 2010.
- First Prize, RENOVATION GRAN VÍA, “Delirious Gran Vía”, Madrid, Spain, 2010.
- First Prize, “PANAYIOTI MIXELI Award”. SADAS-PEA, for the Spreading of Knowledge of Architecture Athens, 2005.
- First Prize, “SANTIAGO AMÓN Award," for the Spreading of Knowledge of Architecture. 2000.
- Award, “PIERRE VAGO Award." ICAC -International Committee of Art Critics. London, 2005.
- First Prize, C.O.A.M. Madrid, 2000. Shortlisted, World Architecture Festival. Centro de Investigación e Interpretación de los Ríos. Tera, Esla y Orbigo, Barcelona, 2008.
- First Prize. FAD AWARD 07 Ephemeral Interventions. “M.C.ESCHER”. Arquin-Fad. Barcelona, Sapin 2007.

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