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¡Adiós 2015!

Federico Garcia Barba — Thu, 24 Dec 2015 12:47:57 +0000

LES DESEAMOS UNAS FELICES FIESTAS Y UN PRÓSPERO AÑO 2016

Participación ciudadana (¡Adiós) La importancia de los linderos, New York. Envejecimiento, 1966

Reducing architecture

Federico Garcia Barba — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:02:00 +0000

Building Blocks, 2011. Elba Benítez Gallery. Photos: M.A Guerreiro

The last September, Fragateiro Fernanda opened an interesting display in the gallery's Madrid Elba Benitez, entitled Deep Space, Shallow Space (Espacio profundo, espacio superficial).

There, las esculturas realizadas se componen por cajas de metal pulido y tamaño exacto que encierran libros y revistas de arquitectura perfectamente encajados, dejando escapar solamente en sus lomos las líneas de color que expresan un contenido encapsulado de aquellas obras fotografiadas y publicadas.

La escultora portuguesa hace una brillante metáfora formal sobre la manera en que la arquitectura contemporánea suele quedar reducida a imágenes y palabras encerradas en libros y revistas profesionales.

By Ideas neoplastic compositions that recall German avant-garde years 20 and patterns extracted from the minimalist sculptors like Donald Judd and Carl Andre, ha construido un discurso crítico con la última colonización de la arquitectura por los medios de comunicación de masas y el marketing empresarial.

The concept explicit in this work is to verify the perversion of a phenomenon that has gained absolute dominance in the certification of the canon of contemporary architecture: Aquello que no se publica no existe para la historia.

The existence and continuity of architectural brands today are totally dependent on the impacts that their works produced, specialized in the media and in various channels for mass communication. Accordingly, architectural journals, exhibitions and collections published-that since the historiography and criticism of architecture are made- have acquired a key role in the course of recent decades, para aquellos arquitectos que quieren proyectarse y tener una relevancia en el mercado.

However, century in the transit of the situation has changed radically. With the advent of the Internet and it is not enough to access the consciousness of certain persons and groups who have been exercising architectural control marketing. This sample is to certify the gradual extinction of the system that was based on the action of renowned critics and exclusive construction paper platforms for mass screening projects and selected works. In the process of transition to digital, we have experienced in the last decade, those usual forms will go gradually losing its hegemonic role and the mechanisms of diffusion of architectural experiences will be becoming more complex and subtle. Within that system is verifiable previous loss of control exercised in a fierce and thus elitist, therefore, se estaría produciendo una transferencia de esa función en beneficio de nuevos actores inmateriales.

It is evident that the traditional platforms referred to earlier, and especially architecture magazines, are being progressively replaced by databases, blogs and digital guides available on the Internet that offer, for the time being, more collections panoramas open to the participation of all. In the space dedicated to the exhibition of architectural news, daily exercised in the past by those products published on paper, is being replaced by other more flexible and dynamic platforms. For example, is the case of Plataforma Arquitectura, WikiArquitectura and blog Edgar González in our language

In future professional marketing actions will go increasingly difficult due to the vastness of sources and impacts of the Internet. El manejo de la reputación profesional en la red va a requerir del concurso de especialistas que dediquen un esfuerzo intenso a la colocación de las imágenes y productos en la mente de unos potenciales clientes y consumidores con escaso tiempo disponible y cada vez más asediados.

With his sculptures, Fragateiro gravedigger plays the role of a way to understand the dissemination of recent architecture. He aquí algunas muestras de su obra y sus propias explicaciones del proyecto artístico realizado.

Double sided bookcase floor, 2010. Arratia Beer Gallery

Modern Architecture without Architects, 2011

Fernanda Fragateiro, space involved. The Cultural ,03/10/2011
A brick with another. The Country, 15/10/2011
Deep Space, Shallow Space. Elba Benítez Gallery, 15/09/2011

The Goslar Warrior

Jorge Mosquera — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 17:45:00 +0000

A large sculptural event took place in Santa Cruz de Tenerife in December 1973: the First International Exhibition of Sculpture in the Street, organized by the College of Architects, the Cabildo and the Savings Bank of the Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, así como también por el Ayuntamiento de la capital.

Forty-six were exposed works, many in situ, of which have been installed by places important samples, parks and boulevards of this city. Artists of various nationalities involved, among which Henry Moore (England), Julio González (Catalonia), Pablo Gargallo (Saragossa), Alberto Sanchez (Toledo), Zadkine (Russia), Alexander Calder (U.S.), Arnaldo Pomodoro (Italy), etc., dejándose sentir la ausencia del vasco Eduardo Chillida.
“The Goslar Warrior” is made of bronze and measures three feet 1,10 and 1,22 meters,according BOC 25 June 2007, is a “representation of a fallen warrior, a figure lying with his head on one end and the shield at the foot, on the opposite side”. This sculpture also known as the “rest of the warrior”, located in the central boulevard of the city was made by Henry Moore (Castleford, England, 1898-1986) created this work to show the weakness that the power, peace more than war, sensitivity more than the glory. The artist is considered a great master of twentieth century sculpture and its influence is universal. The aforementioned work recalls the Warrior Dying iconographically, Henry also Moore, ubicada en el Museo del Capitolio de Roma .
Moore es bien conocido por sus grandes esculturas abstractas de bronce fundido que pueden verse en muchos lugares alrededor del mundo como obras de arte en la calle.
Items are usually abstractions of the human figure, así como madre con niño y especialmente figuras reclinadas o tumbadas con la característica de tener sus figuras huecos vacíos o perforaciones.
The sculpture has been declared by the Government of the Canaries a Cultural (BIC) con la categoría de Bien Mueble.

Wings of Desire

Ralf Veyras — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:12:00 +0000

To end the week I'd recommend the film 80 which is often linked to cycles of Cinema and Architecture. “The Wings of Desire” Wim Wenders is an interesting feature showing fantastic scenes of the city of Berlin through the vision of two angels (Bruno Ganz y Otto Sander) observan que el mundo. Pero sin duda es un película mítica para la arquitectura gracias a la magnífica escena desarrollada en la Biblioteca Nacional de Berlín diseñada por el arquitecto alemán Hans Scharoun.

Later the American film industry realizo, de manera desafortunada, el remake de esta película de cult con el título “City of Angels”.

Lunchtime Atop a Skyscraper

Jorge Mosquera — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:28:00 +0000

“Almuerzo en un rascacielos” es una de las fotografías más famosas de Charles C. Ebbets, todo un clásico de los pósters que te encuentras habitualmente en tiendas de decoración, librerías etc. La imagen fue tomada en el año 1932 durante la construcción del complejo de edificios comerciales Rockefeller Center, en la planta 69 del Edificio de General Electric y la publicó el New York Herald Tribune en el suplemento dominical .

En ella se ven cómo 11 obreros (al parecer, indios Mohawk e Irlandeses) están descansando sentados sobre una viga de acero a una altura de 244 mts, con la ciudad y el vacío bajo sus pies. Las medidas de seguridad brillan por su ausencia, al no tener ni redes, ni arneses, ni siquiera cascos, where workers take the danger as normal, risking their lives every moment, sin la menor protección y por lo que parece sin la menor preocupación por su parte.

Resting on a Girder, esta vez tumbados echándose una siesta.

The photos caused a major impact, served to denounce the precarious working conditions of workers in this period of depression in the United States. Most photos are not prepared, are real and correspond to everyday scenes of the workers who participated in the construction of skyscrapers. These images not surprised by what happens in them, sino te impresiona más lo que puede ocurrir.

Charles Ebbets (photographer) born in Alabama (1905-1978) and it was a passion for photography, at eight years old he bought his first camera at a local store, debiting the account that her mother had open, what was a good punishment, but ultimately did not return it and got away with it. In years 30 had already published his photos in the major newspapers in the U.S. and was well known for his graphic work, por lo que fue contratado como director de fotografía del Rockefeller Center para documentar la construcción de dicho complejo.

These scenes of yesterday, unfortunately continue to be found without the need to go far, is easy to find someone standing on a deck, or scaffold, sin el menor miedo ni la menor protección que pueda evitar un accidente.

Last week was the International Day for Safety and Health ( 28 April ) and served cold to see the previous year's statistics, where despite the downturn in economic activity and the lowest number of employees, fatal accidents increased over the previous year. The main cause of death in construction accident along 2008 were falls from height (42%), followed by impact or crushing deaths (22%). Between 36% remaining listed, mostly, deaths from abuse and those produced as a result of electric shock.

The entry into force in February 1996 Act Occupational Health and Safety was a step forward in terms of integration and Update on Safety Promotion and Health of Workers Preventive incorporating a treatment philosophy of Occupational Hazards and becoming a Statutory Instrument to improve .

The hopes generated by this legislation not only have been fulfilled, sino que nuestro país sigue manteniendo la tendencia alcista en las cifras de siniestralidad laboral a pesar de la mejora con respecto a décadas pasadas.