On Saturday June 11 at the booth number 120 of the Book Fair in Madrid, José Juan Barba will be signing books from 19.30 to 21.00, invited by Naos Libros. Among his most prominent titles we can find "Invenciones: Nueva York vs. Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, Piranesi" and the latest "#positions".
The famous architecture-themed bookstore participates this year in the booth 120 of Madrid’s Book Fair, set in the complex temporarily assembled at Retiro Park (Madrid). The bookstore will offer on the occasion of the event the latest publications related to the field of architecture, and visitors will also be able to fondle its excellent deposit of architecture books, a feature that only the best bookstores can be proud of.
The architect José Juan Barba has combined in the recent years the publication of books related to the field of architectural theory and projects with his professional and teaching career. Thus, besides the aforementioned "Invenciones: Nueva York vs. Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, Piranesi" [Inventions: New York vs. Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, Piranesi] and "#positions", Barba has collaborated in the preparation of the following: 'Crystalzoo. Sparkling Wild Animals', 'Contemporary Architecture in Japan: New Territories' and 'La Mansana de la Discòrdia', modernism as transgression.'
INVENCIONES: Nueva York vs. Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, Piranesi
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."
#POSITIONS
"I need to produce great ideas, and I believe that if I were commissioned to design a new universe, I would be mad enough to undertake it". With this ambitious saying of architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi as a guide, the book presents 21 projects by a generation of young Spanish architects with several common parameters: they all have shared academic formation and project director and they all present in all cases with their proposals a search to build architecture as a place.
The book contains an extensive text by José Juan Barba, articulated in a speech of positioning defined by human body positions, proposing projects and ways of understanding architecture and relate to landscape, natural or antropic. Divided into three blocks, the book organizes the projects according to these positions: inclined, vertical and horizontal.
The famous architecture-themed bookstore participates this year in the booth 120 of Madrid’s Book Fair, set in the complex temporarily assembled at Retiro Park (Madrid). The bookstore will offer on the occasion of the event the latest publications related to the field of architecture, and visitors will also be able to fondle its excellent deposit of architecture books, a feature that only the best bookstores can be proud of.
The architect José Juan Barba has combined in the recent years the publication of books related to the field of architectural theory and projects with his professional and teaching career. Thus, besides the aforementioned "Invenciones: Nueva York vs. Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, Piranesi" [Inventions: New York vs. Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, Piranesi] and "#positions", Barba has collaborated in the preparation of the following: 'Crystalzoo. Sparkling Wild Animals', 'Contemporary Architecture in Japan: New Territories' and 'La Mansana de la Discòrdia', modernism as transgression.'
INVENCIONES: Nueva York vs. Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, Piranesi
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."
#POSITIONS
"I need to produce great ideas, and I believe that if I were commissioned to design a new universe, I would be mad enough to undertake it". With this ambitious saying of architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi as a guide, the book presents 21 projects by a generation of young Spanish architects with several common parameters: they all have shared academic formation and project director and they all present in all cases with their proposals a search to build architecture as a place.
The book contains an extensive text by José Juan Barba, articulated in a speech of positioning defined by human body positions, proposing projects and ways of understanding architecture and relate to landscape, natural or antropic. Divided into three blocks, the book organizes the projects according to these positions: inclined, vertical and horizontal.
