Tan cerca, tan lejos: Aldo Rossi y el Grupo 2C. Arquitectura, ideología y disidencias en la Barcelona de los 70 = So close, so far : Aldo Rossi and the 2C Group. Architecture, ideology and dissents in the Barcelona of the 70s

The Catalan reception of the 1966 manifestos by Robert Venturi and Aldo Rossi marks the scenario of a breakup: while North America debates about the architectural shape as a linguistic structure, Italy dips its roots in the Modern Movement tradition as an origin for a new temporal and ideological architectural dimension. The first contacts between Rossi and Spain verify this search and allow the Italian to construct common itineraries with some architects from Barcelona. From these exchanges the 2C group will be born, taking part on typical vanguardist mechanisms: they will publish the magazine, 2C. The construction of the city (1972-1985), they will attend the XV Triennale di Milano in 1973 with the Torres Clavé Plan (1971) and the Aldo Rossi + 21 Spanish architects exhibition (1975) while he will organize the three issues of the Seminarios Internacionales de Arquitectura Contemporánea (S.I.AC.) which took place in Santiago, Sevilla and Barcelona between 1976 and 1980. In front of the unfolding of the firsts, the American contacts of Federico Correa, Oriol Bohigas, Lluís Domènech and the PER studio or the teaching work of Rafael Moneo from Barcelona since 1971, allow to draw replica itineraries with the foundation of the magazine Arquitecturas Bis (1974-1985), the organization of the meetings between international publications such as Lotus and Oppositions in Cadaqués (1975) and New York (1977), while stablishing exchanges with members of the Five Architects. Replicas that in 1976 conduct the initial ideological affirmations between Rossi and the 2C group towards irreconcilable distancing. Verifying the itinerary of the journey that the Italian leads from the Italian resistance towards the American backing down is part of the aim of this article

ReBcn

Postprint (published version)

AR 117: viviendas en Alcázar de San Juan

Postprint (published version)

ETÓ_04_AMPOSTA: habitatges a Amposta, Tarragona

Postprint (published version)

Arcàdia

Postprint (published version)

La lluna de Calp

Award-winning

Proposta de redacción do Plan Xeral de Ordenación Municipal de Bergondo

Award-winning

Guia temàtica Biblioteca ETSAB: Innovacions tecnològiques a l’arquitectura, la construcció i l’urbanisme

Postprint (author’s final draft)

Cruïlla 0

Postprint (published version)

Willkommen: concurs de millora de Dalt la Costa de Ses Voltes de Maó

Award-winning

Quartett: concurs d'urbanització de l'àmbit de Sa Punta, a Maó

Award-winning

Estora: concurs d'urbanització de la Placeta de Sant Roc de Maó

Postprint (published version)

Guia temàtica Biblioteca ETSAB: 6 revistes dels seixanta

Conté bibliografia específica sobre 6 revistes d'arquitectura i urbanisme: Architectural Design, The Architectural Record, The Architectural Review, L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, Casabella, Domus, i també d'altres revistes importants dins les dues disciplines.

The Paralympic Village: a barrier-free city

Article describing the design standards and their use for Paralympic facilities. This article was published in the book entitled Olympic Villages: a hundred years of urban planning and shared experiences compiling the papers given at the 1997 International Symposium on International Chair in Olympism (IOC-UAB).

A diagram of public spaces within urban landscape as a strategy for sustainable urban planning in Chinese cities

Destruction of historical urban fabric in many Chinese cities and towns, without the possibility of its recovery as an urban asset, leads us to consider alternative strategies and criteria for formulating new urban projects, using creative urban planning instruments and strategies to provide a sense of place and identity to the urban landscape. The challenge is to set up an urban structure that constitutes a spatial reference system, a structure consisting of a set of urban landmarks that construct a system of related public spaces, endowed with collective significance and identity. Such a network could include a wide variety of urban typologies and natural elements. An important result of this strategy would be the recovery of the social and cultural values attached to the natural landscape in Chinese civilization. Hangzhou city will be analyzed as a case study