VLC arquitectura. Research Journal - Vol. 05, núm. 1 (2018)
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- The last urban development project by Antonio Bonet: the SOS village (1970)
- Notes about the Palais des Machines of 1889 in Paris: space, structure and ornament
- Glimpses of Alvar Aalto in the opera prima of Antonio Fernández Alba (1959-62)
- The Fuente de la Sábana and the baroque stage of the suburban villa El Bosque de Béjar
- Goethe among the Ancients: Nature and Architecture
- Paradigm, experiment and conclusion: La Casa by Bernard Rudofsky in three acts
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- Rafael Moneo. Building. Teaching. Writing. Francisco González de Canales and Nicholas Ray
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- PublicationRafael Moneo. Building. Teaching. Writing. Francisco González de Canales and Nicholas Ray(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-04-19) García-Asenjo Llana, David[ES] La larga trayectoria de Rafael Moneo no se puede entender sólo desde su aportación a la disciplina con la construcción de edificios, sino también desde su labor docente, y la producción teórica y crítica a lo largo de toda su carrera. Su pensamiento arquitectónico es uno de los aspectos que menos atención ha recibido hasta el momento, y por tanto era necesario un trabajo que lo analizase para completar los estudios sobre su figura. Francisco González de Canales y Nicholas Ray realizan una disección de la carrera de Moneo poniendo especial atención en su filosofía arquitectónica como parte fundamental a la hora de entender su obra construida.
- PublicationParadigm, experiment and conclusion: La Casa by Bernard Rudofsky in three acts(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-04-19) García-Diego Villarías, Héctor; Villanueva Fernández, María[EN] La Casa –or in English, the house– that Bernard Rudofsky built on the Spanish Mediterranean coast in 1971 is a valuable case study on the operational possibilities of popular architecture in the practice of this contemporary discipline. It is a repository of theoretical references typical of the vernacular world; its author, known for the exhibition Architecture without Architects, is emblematic of this type of architecture to which he dedicated much of his efforts as a theorist and polemicist throughout the course of his life. Additionally, La Casa is a unique architectural feat as it involves the practical materialization of its implicated theoretical position. It is possible that a concrete conclusion can be drawn from this case, which may shed light on the possible operability of a type of architecture that presents more than a few difficulties for the current context of the discipline, despite being habitually admired and praised. Additionally, the text presented here brings to light unpublished information found in the personal diaries of the architect that allows for the recreation of the circumstances surrounding the ideation and construction of this piece of architecture.
- PublicationGoethe among the Ancients: Nature and Architecture(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-04-19) Rubio Garrido, Alberto Jose; Departamento de Proyectos Arquitectónicos; Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura[EN] During his trip to Sicily, a striking triad influenced Goethe. In the first place, a certain mythological predisposition presides over his descriptions. Second, he includes in his narration digressions about geology, geography, and botany. Finally, he dwells on detailed allusions to his artistic experiences, which include principally those related to architecture. As a result, Goethe combined in Sicily the experience of the ancient myth with the intimate conviction that feeling the natural and the Greek, as far as architecture is concerned, joins him to a meaning with validity in his time.
- PublicationThe Fuente de la Sábana and the baroque stage of the suburban villa El Bosque de Béjar(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-04-19) Muñoz Domínguez, José[EN] Most of the studies published on the suburban village El Bosque de Béjar (Salamanca) focus on its Renaissance period, when it was created by Duke Francisco de Zúñiga y Sotomayor, leaving in the background the contributions of other later dukes. The article documents the Baroque reforms of French inspiration projected in the period 1705-1727 by Juan Manuel Diego Lopez de Zúñiga y Castro, XI attenuated, who began with the construction of the so-called Fuente de la Sábana (ca. 1705) and included a walk with “gazon” bands, a “potager”, large pots with orange trees, a park and a “fondería” (distillery) attended by botanist masters. The projects, probably inspired by the Abbe Emmanuel Jouin, were partly executed and are among the earlier ones of the first Bourbon period within the environment of the nobility.
- PublicationGlimpses of Alvar Aalto in the opera prima of Antonio Fernández Alba (1959-62)(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-04-19) Pérez-Moreno, Lucía C.; Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte[EN] Antonio Fernández Alba’s work of the nineteen-sixties has been described fundamentally as ‘organic’, alluding to its consonances with the architecture of Alvar Aalto. This text examines the reading that Fernández Alba presented about the culture of Finnish architecture in several writings published in the Madrid journal Arquitectura, among which the essay “Human and Aesthetic values in Finnish Design” published in 1962 stands out. Reflections presented in this text were manifested in his design for the School of Nuestra Señora Santa María in Madrid, a project in which Fernández Alba was working at that time. Whilst remaining true to the requirements of a Catholic girl’s school, Fernández Alba’s project shows his interest in designing an architecture conducive to play, connected with the surrounding nature, not governed by preconceived forms, sympathetic in its choice of materials, and free in the use and enjoyment of its facilities. In short, an architectural design that considered the psychophysical needs of the female students and teachers, so that a ‘humanized architecture’ emerged, alluding to the well-known essay by Aalto written in 1940.