Books to give away. METALOCUS # 2016
03/01/2016.
The Three Kings
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
Our selection of books to give away. They are books to enjoy their reading, their graphic content, not strictly architectural books, getting out of the inbred world of architecture.
Books to give away. METALOCUS # 2016.
01. Radical Cities, trip to the new Latin American architecture. By Justin McGuirk.
Justin McGuirk has published a new book, Radical Cities, trip to the new Latin American architecture. It is a journey through extreme places, starting a neighborhood of social housing in Mexico, followed by Buenos Aires, Caracas, Rio's favelas, Chile to Medellin, recommended for those interested in politics, urban planning and ways of living in the XXI century.
02. Siza x Siza. Questions in the air. By Juan Rodríguez y Carlos Seoane
...la presentación del libro “Siza x Siza” fotografiado por Juan Rodríguez y Carlos Seoane, un voluminoso compendio de 157 imágenes, de tan solo seis obras elegidas por el propio Siza, entre las que se intercalan 124 dibujos hechos a mano del arquitecto, acompañado de una larga e interesante entrevista a cargo de Carlos Seoane, que recorre todo el libro .
03. 'Inventions: New York vs. Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, Piranesi.' By José Juan Barba
On 'Invenciones: Nueva York vs. Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, Piranesi' José Juan Barba establishes a metaliguistic discourse which explores the relationship between the work and drawings by G.B. Piranesi and the graphic work of two of the most relevant architects of Cotemporary Architecture, Rem Koolhaas and Bernard Tschumi.
In contrast to pristine views and selective scientific approaches, the author seeks to present contemporary views of Architecture, sometimes retroactive, but always more complex, inclusive and nearer to reality and which include the observers, the users. In the author's words, "a presentation of the Architecture of places, as opposed to the architecture of solids."
04. Lost in the City by Nicholas Sack.
Este nuevo libro Lost in the City, que cuenta con un texto introductorio de Iain Sinclair, es una recopilación de las últimas fotografías tomadas por Nicholas Sack. Este fotógrafo,influenciado por la obra de Garry Winogrand y Lee Friedlander, ha recorrido el distrito financiero de Londres durante 30 años, recogiendo en sus imágenes en blanco y negro el contraste entre los trabajadores y el contexto dado por la arquitectura moderna de la ciudad.
05. Thought by hand. A book about Flores & Prats' architecture
El primer libro que documenta el trabajo de Flores & Prats, un estudio de arquitectura fundado en 1998 en Barcelona, que combina la práctica proyectual y constructiva con una intensa actividad académica en diferentes universidades. Después de una experiencia en el estudio de Enric Miralles, Ricardo Flores y Eva Prats desarrollan juntos una carrera donde la investigación va ligada siempre a la responsabilidad de hacer y construir, en un interés por que los proyectos se hagan, se fabriquen y puedan participar de la libertad de interpretación que da la obra construida.
06. Nordic Light: Modern Scandinavian Architecture. By Henry Plummer.
Thames and Hudson presents the book of Herny Plummer: Nordic Light: Modern Scandinavian Architecture, published last year and its content includes a group of fifty interesting projects presented in detail, ordered according to the way in which different light conditions affect the building’s qualities.
The exhibition organized by the Barbican Centre at the Museo ICO with the occasion of the edition of PHotoEspaña 2015 contains approximately 250 photographs made by some of the best international photographers in history. The exhibition starts at the top floor with Berenice Abbott, female photographer during the 30s who realized the changing nature of the City of New York and documented the evolution of the city, not as a compliment to modernity but from a clearly political point of view, focusing on how architecture influenced the lives of people who should live in it. With this beginning it is clear to expect much from this exhibition organized by Alona Pardo and Elias Redstone.
08. Las Mujeres de la Bauhaus: de lo bidimensional al espacio total. By Josenia Hervás y Heras
In this book, the author Josenia Hervas, makes explicit the tenacity of those women who joined the training that practiced in schools in which they came to form, showed that they had sufficient capacity to develop any intellectual activity as complex as it is outside. These women fighters, as called Ida A.R.Wylie, never a "current little ladies" Bauhaus managed to culminate in a highly qualified education. They became industrial engineers and architects.
The book shows the lesser known side of the most famous school: the work of the architects that emerged from the Bauhaus.
09. Georgii Krutikov. The Flying City and Beyond. By Selim Omarovich Khan-Magomédov.
The Russian avant-gardes always were overshadowed by constructivism. The darkness over their proposals, lack of information from them for decades, coupled to extraordinary brilliance and dissemination of the constructivist actions, caused many of its actors and proposals, were remained on the back burner, or completely forgotten.
The Tenov editorial (dir. Llorenç Bonet) has recently published, in English and Spanish, an extraordinary and careful study by Selim Omarovich Khan-Magomedov, entitled 'Georgii Krutikov. The Flying City and Beyond.' A particularly attractive and contemporary title if we remember the first sentences of 'The History of the Pool' by Rem Koolhaas, text included in 'Delirious New York'.
10. Contemporary Architecture in Japan: New Territories
The book has been produced with the participation of José Juan Barba, Juan Antonio Cortes, Yayoi Kawamura, Marta Rodriguez, Enric Massip-Bosch, Pedro Luis Gallego, Pilar Garces, Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama, Jin Taira, Norihiko Dan and Jose Manuel González Vázquez.
The celebration of the Dual Year Spain-Japan and Japan-Spain in 2013 and 2014, has led to make this experience of intersecting glances, recognising the nature of the cultural mix in a global context which must favour the exchange of ideas.
11. 'La Mansana de la Discòrdia', modernism as transgression.
The "Block of Discord" / "La Mansana de la Discòrdia" is the name given to one of the most visited parts of Paseo de Gracia in Barcelona. Between Aragón Street and Consejo de Ciento we find five buildings by renowned Catalan architects: Casa Lleó Morera by Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Casa Mulleras by Enric Sagnier, Casa Bonet by Marcel·lià Coquillat, Casa Ametller by Josep Puig i Cadafalch and Casa Batlló by Antoni Gaudí. The rivalry between the buildings designed by Domenech i Montaner, Puig i Cadafalch and Antoni Gaudí, and the striking design of the latter, gave rise to the popular name of the "block of discord".
The book was a "choral" realization by Judith Urbano, PhD in Art History, José Juan Barba, PhD in Architecture, Manuel Arenas, Architect, Mariola Borrell, Architect, Guillem Carabí, PhD in Architecture, José María Díez, Architect and Fatima López PhD in Art History, all of them GRHAD members.
12. Pictures of Barcelona, the great book of the city.
How cosmopolitan, elegant, subtle, committed and influential can be Barcelona? Nearly 300 photographs, from the nineteenth century to the present time, give an answer to this question, a journey that shows why Barcelona projects such an attractive image to the world.
Top photographers gather in these pages to portray the city. Dramatic images of Cartier-Bresson, Gerda Taro and Chim during the Civil War contrast with the fresher look of Colita and Miserachs or the sophistication and glamour of Avedon and Helmut Newton. But also including the work of Pérez de Rozas as a chronicler of the city, or photos by Arissa, Català-Roca, Falco, Malet, Forcano, Plossu, Koudelka, Scianna or Salvans.
13. 'Crystalzoo. Sparkling Wild Animals'
The publishing house Doble Hélice presents 'CrystalZoo. Sparkling Wild Animals' which deeply shows the work of Crystalzoo, one of the studios that is transforming Alicante's towns by building public architecture devoted to society.
This work unites an author’s roster coming from diverse knowledge fields: José Juan Barba, architect and director of the journal Metalocus; Jordi Navas, journalist and Art history scholar, and Cristina Martínez, Diario INFORMACIÓN culture journalist. Also featuring Anatxu Zabalbeascoa, journalist, historian and El País architecture critic, who has signed up the interview to José Luis Campos, chief architect of CrystalZoo studio.
