Matter and Light. Josep Ferrando, Barcelona
09/07/2014.
Exhibition. Aedes Gallery. [BER] Germany 12/07-21/08/2014
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On 12 July, Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin will celebrate the opening of "Matter and Light", displaying architect Josep Ferrando's work. Parallel to this show, you can also visit the exhibition "In progress Matter & Light", designed by Ferrando himself.
Model. Campus Terres del Ebre. URV. Tortosa. By Josep Ferrando and Ravetllat&Ribas. Courtesy of Josep Ferrando Architecture.
Model. Club de Golf en Rio dModel. Club de Golf en Rio de Janeiro by Josep Ferrando. Courtesy of Josep Ferrando Architecture.e Janeiro by Josep Ferrando. Courtesy of Josep Ferrando Architecture. Click above to see larger image.
Model. Tangram. Banco para Breinco by Josep Ferrando. Courtesy of Josep Ferrando Architecture.
Museum in Regensburg. Light plan: Josep Ferrando Architecture. Courtesy of Josep Ferrando Architecture.
Police Station in Salt, Girona by Josep Ferrando and Sergi Serrat. Photography © Adrià Goula. Courtesy of Josep Ferrando Architecture.
Campus Terres del Ebre. URV. Tortosa. By Josep Ferrando and Ravetllat&Ribas. Photography © Pedro Pegenaute. Courtesy of Josep Ferrando Architecture.
Model. Pearson House by Josep Ferrando. Courtesy of Josep Ferrando Architecture.
Josep Ferrando. Photography © Adrià Goula. Courtesy of Josep Ferrando Architecture.
Aedes Architecture Forum presents for the first time in Germany the work of the architect Josep Ferrando from Barcelona. His buildings distinguish themselves through the reduction of the principal materials used. The selected materiality and the sensitive use of lighting open up subtle spatial connections that are made visible and perceptible through the dialogue between “Matter and Light”. Josep Ferrando declares:
”The essence of the architectural project or the final built work is characterised by an inherent duality between the place and the architect. The place forms the basic state – the real-life framework of the planning area. Through a personal interpretation of the place and the building brief along with the choice of tools, the architect brings together all parameters that influence the construction process until finally a building emerges: the architectural work as a combination of light and matter. The volume, formed from matter, is as such inanimate - silent and still. Light, however, with its infinite expansion confined by the contours of the architecture, creates the effect of being alive, moving and dynamic.”
Place, light and space are also the main elements of the exhibition design itself. The exhibition installation is focused around twelve models, each built with just one of six materials: glass, steel, wood, stone, ceramic and concrete. Plans, drawings, elaborate models and movies document the high aesthetic quality in each of Josep Ferrando’s buildings. A lively interplay of projections on the walls of the exhibition space presents more information, photographs and details about the architecture. The projects on show include a golf club in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a police station in Salt, Spain, a crematorium in Basel, Switzerland, the University Campus in Tortosa, Spain as well as a house in Llerona, Spain.
The models for the exhibition are generously supported by: Breinco, Cosentino, Cricursa, Cumella, Pidemunt, Room, Lamp.
Dates.- 12 July - 21 August 2014.
Opening.- Friday, 11 July 2014, 6:30 pm.
Venue.- Aedes Am Pfefferberg, Christinenstraße 18-19, 10119 Berlin.
Opening hours.- Tu-Fr 11-18.30h, Sa-Su 13-17h.
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JOSEP FERRANDO BRAMONA
Josep Ferrando Bramona is an architect based in Barcelona and director of the Josep Ferrando Architecture office. He has combined design, construction and teaching since the beginning of his career as an architect.
Since 1998 he has been a professor of projects in schools such as ETSAB (Department of Architectural Projects, Housing and City Course, City of Barcelona Award 2016 with the research "Arquitectos de Cabecera“), Torcuato di Tella University of Buenos Aires, Escola Técnica Superior de Arquitectura La Salle (ETSALS), the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), the Hochschule für Technik Zürich (HSZT), the Escola de disseny i art Sina and the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) of Barcelona and Rio de Janeiro where he is Director of Master Space Design Methdology. He has also been invited to prestigious international schools, where he has directed workshops and semesters.
In 2014 he participated with the exhibition "In progress Matter & Light" at the 14th Architecture Biennial of the prestigious Architekturforum Redes de Berlin Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Santiago de Chile and the Biennial International Architecture of Buenos Aires. In 2016, with his work "casa entre medianeras", he was part of the "Unfinished" exhibition of the Spanish pavilion of the 15th Venice Architecture Biennial awarded with the Golden Lion of the exhibition. In the cultural field he has participated in numerous juries, among which stand out the FAD 2018 and the XI BIAU Awards, and since 2018 he has headed the Vocalía de Cultura of the Architects' Association of Catalonia, at which time he was awarded the National Culture Prize.
