Arquitecturas en conflicto

Adolf Loos (1870-1933), riconosciuto come uno dei più significanti profeti dell'architettura moderna, era una star dei suoi tempi, conosciuto come un dandy audace e moralista che sfidava l'establishment. Le sue opere rappresentano non solo l'inizio del modernismo, ma introdussero anche il concetto di architettura degli spazi. Loos pubblicò anche numerosi saggi durante la sua vita, il più notevole dei quali è lo spesso incompreso "Ornament and crime". Annotation Supplied by Informazioni Editoriali

Excerpt from Descripcion Artistica de la Catedral de Sevilla Formar la descripcion ar listica de un templo no es hacer il Cécerone, que rela ta de corrida todo lo que en él se contiene¿ con mil elo gios exagerados de los pro fesores que lo han trabaja do. Tampoco es cosa tan fá cil como piensan los que no saben ver en las belias artes, ni de tan poca impor tancia como juzgan los que las miran con desde_n, supo niendoías de ningun interes ni infiuxo en la república. Al contrario es asunto serio y difícil, que requiere cier tos conocimientos, por des gracia exoticos entre noso tros...

In the nineties, the modern orthodoxy has stopped imposing its criteria. At a time when there are as many architectural philosophies as architects, this volume offers us some answers to the common question of where present-day architecture is going. This view of the current world of architecture is presented through analysis of the projects of the most recognized and respected architects, but also the most innovative ones and those of the new generations.

Cecilia Puga belongs, along with Smiljan Radic, Alejandro Aravena and Pezo von Ellrichshausen, to a new generation of Chilean architects who from their peripheral situation address concerns that are very much in keeping with certain avenues explored by European architecture. This issue of 2G brings together seventeen buildings and projects by the Chilean architect, including the exemplary House in Bah’a Azul, in which the classic icon of the section of a house - the outline any child might draw - is manipulated, pivoted and transformed to produce a sense of strangeness in relation to its...