Del diagrama a las experiencias, hacia una arquitectura de acción

Gustavo Gili publishes “Del diagrama a las experiencias, hacia una arquitectura de acción” (“From the diagram to the experiences, through action architecture”), an interesting proposal guided by Josep María Montaner that enriches the chores of the architecture in a theoretical-practical way using as tools: diagrams, experiences and actions.

At the present time, we are in a period of deep productive, social and moral principles change. In architecture, beyond the progress of the architectural illustration systems and the transformation of the constructive types, the need of renewing thoroughly the theory and the criticism is increasingly showed.

This book thinks about a theoretical practical refoundation of the architecture from the explicit linkage of three instrumental cores that are tied up with it: the diagrams, the experiences and the actions. Through the exploration of concepts, tools and emblematic case studies, Josep María Montaner dissects, on the one hand, the abstract nature of the architectonics creations that have been designed through diagrams and, on the other hand, the complexity of the lived experiences and the intention of the actions of collectives and creators that look for an active and ethical operation on the reality.

An investigation that brings nearer the architecture and the town planning to the philosophy, the sociology, the anthropology and the geography in order to force it to go away from the limits of its own abstraction and, in short, enter the experience as counterpoint of the reason despotism and the unique look.

Title.- Del diagrama a las experiencias, hacia una arquitectura de acción.
Author.- Josep María Montaner.
Language.- Spanish.
Format.- Soft cover.
Size.- 15 x 21 cm.
Pages.- 184.
ISBN.- 978-84-2522-670-0.

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JOSEP MARÍA MONTANER

Josep María Montaner (1954) is architect, writer and professor at ETSAB-UPC. He have obtained 5 six-years terms at CNEAI because of the quality of his researcher investigation. He has also been invited professor in different European, American and Asian University. He has co-directed with the professor Zaida Muxí the Master called "LAboratorio de la Vivienda del siglo XXI", which is imparted at the ETSAB.

He is the author of about thirty books translated into several languages, being the lattest one "Sistemas arquitectónicos contemporáneos" (Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 2008), and he usually publishes in architecture magazines and in the Spanish dailys El País and La Vanguardia.

He is director of the researching project "Archivo documental para una revista crítica del modelo Barcelona".

He has been deputy director of culture at ETSAB (2002-2005).

He has obtained Premio Construmat for his articles in El País (1989); Premio Espais de Crítica de Arte (1992); Premio Bonaplata de Difusión por la defensa del patrimonio industrial (1993) and Premio Nacional de Urbanismo a la iniciativa periodística 2005 del Ministerio de Vivienda, because of his articles in the newspapers El País and La Vanguardia.