DETAILERS, from METALOCUS [1/2]

16/02/2015. 2nd Detailers meeting in Madrid. [MA] Spain 19.02.2015
metalocus, ALEX DURO, DANIEL MADERA, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA

Are you one of those who think the same as Mies van der Rohe "God is in the detail"?, or you are on the side of Rem Koolhaas when he supports that "no money, no details, just concepts"? Anyway, if the world of details inspires you, you can't miss the 2nd 'Detailers' Meeting in Madrid, organized by DETAILERS de SIMON, and in which well-known architects such as Carles Ferrater, from OAB - Office of Architecture in Barcelona, Fermín Vázquez, from b720 Architects or the designer Oscar Mariné will share with the public their personal experiences about the task, as well as references to different architecture masters and examples of good practices of details.

Seagram building by Mies van der Rohe in association with Philip Johnson. Image courtesy of RFR.

Seagram building by Mies van der Rohe in association with Philip Johnson. Image courtesy of RFR.

Kolumba Diocesan Museum, Cologne, Germany. By Peter Zumthor. Photography © Hélène Binet.

Detail of the lace patterned facade. Nottingham Contemporary by Caruso St John Architects. Photography © Helene Binet.

Details – also designed by siza – has been restored according to his specific requirements. Renovated Boa Nova Casa de Chá by Siza. Photography © Joao Morgado.

Tama Art University Library (Hachiōji campus), 2004—2007, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo, Japan. Photo by Tomio Ohashi.

Mott 32 by Joyce Wang Studio. Photography © Joyce Wang Studio.

Rehabilitation of Santa Caterina Market by EMBT. Photography © Alex Gaultier.

Parque de los Colores. Lledó-Mollet del Vallés by Enric Miralles.

ET Collection by Elmar Thome. Photography © courtesy of Sic97.

INTRODUCTION. Elements of Architecture. Central Pavilions, Venice Biennale 2014. Photography © Francesco Galli. Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia.

Elena. 61 x 175 cm. Papel Super Alfa 250 grs. Edición limitada. 50 reproducciones. Firmada y numerada a mano. Por Gabriel Moreno. Image © courtesy of ARTFRIDAY.

Living-room of the Norman and Doris Fisher House, Hatboro, Pennsylvania, Louis Kahn, 1960–67.

House of the Infinite by AlHouse of the Infinite by Alberto Campo Baeza. Photography © Javier Callejas Sevilla.berto Campo Baeza. Photography © Javier Callejas Sevilla. Click above to see larger image.

Pibamarmi Pavilion by Alberto Campo Baeza. Photography courtesy of Estudio Arquitectura Campo Baeza.

Installation view of “When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969/Venice 2013". Germano Celant in dialogue with Thomas Demand and Rem Koolhaas.

Prada's The Infinite Palace by OMA. FW 2015 Men’s and Women’s. Photography © Alberto Moncada; OMA and Prada.

Álvaro Siza. Viagem sem Programa. Image courtesy of the publisher.

"La Tourette 02", architecture by Le Corbusier, 2002/07. Material: hand printed b/w silver gelatin measurements: w 50 x h 60 cm. Edition.- 10 +2 a.p. Photograph © Hélène Binet, courtesy ammann gallery, Cologne.

"Feldkapelle für den heiligen bruder klaus 03", 2007. Material: hand printed b/w silvergelatin. Measurements: w 50,8 x h 61 cm. Edition: 6 + 2 a.p.Photograph © Hélène Binet, courtesy ammann gallery, Cologne.

New entrance atrium Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam by Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos. Photography © Pedro Pegenaute. Image courtesy of Rijksmuseum.

Reformed Galleries Rijksmuseum. Photography © Pedro Pegenaute. Image courtesy of Rijksmuseum.

Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret). Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1959-1962. Model school. 1960. Wood and cardboard. Fondation Le Corbusier, París.

Mies Pavilion without doors. "Second Reconstruction", by Jordi Bernadó. Photography © Pietro Milici.

Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Cabanon,Le Corbusier 1949. ©Fondation Le Corbusier-ADAGP, Paris 2013.

As a result of the meeting, in METALOCUS we are going to take part in the reflection on architecture and details. Because of that, today we bring you 10 examples of maximum attention to detail. Divergent approximations about if it is necessary or not think about architecture with the detail as a starting point. To illustrate every single example, we propose you a quote by the architect or artist and two photographs of their detailed work.

And you? are you a 'detailer'?

"God is in the detail".

Mies van der Rohe.

"Critics say the detail of our projects is simply bad, and I say there is no detail... No money, no details, just concepts."

Rem Koolhaas. El Croquis nº 53. Madrid, 1991.

"In my experience, the best details are usually those that are not consciously perceived. Ironically, details that are too well designed - on which too much emphasis is laid - can impair the overall appearance of a building. That is why it is important to develop a concept that does not set the detail in the foreground too much".

Álvaro Siza.

And if you think of brick, for instance, and you say to brick, "What do you want brick?" and brick says to you "I like an arch." And if you say to brick "Look, arches are expensive, and I can use a concrete lentil over you. What do you think of that?", "Brick?" Brick says: "... I like an Arch"

Louis Kahn.

"The quality of a city had less to do with the quality of its buildings or the peculiarities of its location, and more with the quality of its firs 20 cm height"

Enric Miralles.

"Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand"

Toyo Ito

"Architecture is a thing of art, a phenomenon of the emotions, lying outside questions of construction and beyond them. The purpose of construction is to make things hold together; of architecture to move us."

Le Corbusier.

"Architecture, above detail and design, perfection or imperfection, LIES in its most essential components. The details and designs will be valid only if they serve to underline those core issues."

La idea construida, por Alberto Campo.