Aires Modernos. E.1027: maison en bord de mer

This book tries to elaborate a specific manuscript of Architecture, and more specifically of Projects.

The architect projects to the extent that he makes a critique of his work and obtains a product so objective and free that it allows him to enunciate himself as a subject; that is to say, the Project as a critic, the critic as a meta-project. All this, in terms of the context of the book. The pretext has been Villa E.1027 that Eileen Gray and Jean Badovici built between 1926 and 1929 in Cap Martin, Roquebrune, on the French Riviera.

As for the text, it is reduced to the application, in the chosen work, of the most complete model of criticism that has been used. This method, inspired by Todorov's linguistic criticism procedure, proposes four times, each one deeper than the previous one and, therefore, more typical of architecture.

Eileen Gray simultaneously confronts modernism and rationalism. She achieves it with a work full of modernity and rationality.