ART_01-Architecture, City, Photography

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The volume Architecture, City, Photography inaugurates the ART – Architectural Research Tribune collection, a series devoted to exploring new forms of research in architecture through methods and formats that expand the traditional boundaries of academic discourse.

The book brings together a series of essays that examine the close relationship between architecture, the city and the image, analysing the role photography has played in the cultural construction of modern and contemporary architecture. Through different case studies, the authors show how images do not simply document buildings, but also contribute to defining their meaning, their dissemination and their presence in the collective memory of the city.

The contributions address a wide range of topics, from the influence of key photographers in the dissemination of modern architecture to the analysis of buildings that have shaped the urban image of different cities. Alongside these historical studies, the volume also explores new ways of observing the contemporary city, incorporating visual approaches and digital tools that broaden the possibilities of architectural research.

More than a simple collection of texts, the book proposes a reflection on photography as a critical instrument and a tool for knowledge, capable of revealing new readings of architecture and the urban landscape. In this way, Architecture, City, Photography invites the reader to reconsider the role of images in the way we understand and study architecture.

Product Details

Collection: ART. Architectural Research Tribune
Number: 1
Language: Spanish/ English
Size: 23 x 29,5 cm
Format: Soft Cover
Page number: 176
ISBN: 978-84-947421-9-4

Contents

Werner Blaser reviews some key moments of his career in a conversation; a fundamental text of Ezra Stoller published in Perspecta is taken up; the Pirelli, Avianca and Banco Atlántico towers are compared in their relationship with the city through the history of their photographs; the photographic work of the architect, aviator and photographer Tomás José Sanabria is researched; we retrieved the photographs of José Moscardi for the magazine Acropole; Le Corbusier's relationship with photographs taken during his trip to Rio de Janeiro are put under review; we present a virtual graphic reconstruction of the Ron Bacardi building by Mies van der Rohe; we analyze the impact of Google Street View in our relationship with the image we have of the city; we revisit the photographs of Fernando and Roberto Luna of the gardens of Pedregal de San Ángel by Francisco Artigas; the exhibition Constructing Worlds of the Barbican Center is analyzed in detail; Roberto Masiero presents his reflections on the disturbing relationship between Architecture and Photography; we point to the link between thought, drawing and photography in the work of Livio Vacchini; and we present some contemporary photographic diptychs of Buenos Aires and Rosario realized by the photographer Javier Agustín Rojas.

WERNER BLASER. INTERVIEW
Sandra H. Yborra, Álvaro Solís

TOMÁS JOSÉ SANABRIA. ARCHITECT, AVIATOR, PHOTOGRAPHER.
María Fernanda Jaua

MIES VAN DER ROHE. GRAPHIC (RE)CONSTRUCTION OF THE RON BACARDÍ OFFICE BUILDING. Santiago, Cuba, 1957-1960
Eduardo Mantovani Genari

PHOTOGRAPHY AND CONSTRUCTION OF "CITY IMAGES". THREE BUILDINGS IN HEIGHT: PIRELLI (MILAN), ATLÁNTICO (BARCELONA) AND AVIANCA (BOGOTÁ).
Maria Pia Fontana, Miguel Mayorga, Margarita Roa

JOSÉ MOSCARDI. PHOTOGRAPHER AT ACROPOLE MAGAZINE
Fernanda M. Aguirre B.

THE VISUAL CONSTRUCTION OF FRANCISCO ARTIGAS’ WORK IN THE JARDINES DEL PEDREGAL DE SAN ÁNGEL THROUGH THE PHOTOGRAPHIC LENS OF ROBERTO AND FERNANDO LUNA.
Claudia Rueda Velázquez

CONSTRUCTING WORLDS: PHOTOGRAPHY AND ARCHITECTURE IN THE MODERN AGE. USES AND ABUSES
Daniel García-Escudero, Berta Bardí i Milà

DESCRIPTION
Javier Agustín Rojas

SEEN BY GOOGLE STREET VIEW
Cristina Gastón Guirao

EZRA STOLLER. Perspecta 8
Andrea Parga

A REVIEW OF MODERN REFERENTS THROUGH THE LENS. TO RIO DE JANEIRO AND BACK, 1936
Aitor Acilu, Carlos Labarta

ARCHITECTURE AND PHOTOGRAPHY. SEEKING TO UNDERSTAND
Roberto Masiero

LIVIO VACCHINI. ON THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THOUGHT, DRAWING AND PHOTOGRAPHY
Clara Mejía Vallejo, Ricardo Merí de la Maza