{"title":"Arquitectura singular y espacio público : in lexiones en la plaza medieval italiana = Unique architecture and public space : Inflections in the Italian medieval square","authors":"Ángel Camacho Pina","doi":"10.20868/cn.2021.4743","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20868/cn.2021.4743","url":null,"abstract":"ResumenLa plaza medieval italiana, cuyo apogeo tiene lugar entre los siglos XIII y XIV e inmediatamente antes de la revolución que va a suponer el quattrocento, constituye uno de los espacios más interesantes de la historia del urbanismo y la arquitectura. Las características que estos conjuntos tienen en común, y las relaciones entre la arquitectura que los conforma y el propio espacio generado por ésta, se analizan aquí a partir de conceptos formales, simbólicos o puramente prácticos. El objetivo es poner de relieve la compleja relación entre la arquitectura singular y representativa presente en las plazas y el propio espacio urbano, señalando patrones, criterios y mecanismos comunes que ayuden a comprender su riqueza espacial y formal.AbstractThe Italian medieval square, whose heyday takes place between the 13th and 14th centuries and immediately before the revolution that will bring about the quattrocento, is one of the most interesting spaces in history of architecture and urban planning. The characteristics that these ensembles have in common, and the relationships between the architecture that makes them up and the space generated by it, are analyzed here through formal, symbolic or purely practical concepts. The objective is to highlight the complex relationship between the singular and representative architecture present in the squares and the urban space itself, pointing out common patterns, criteria and mechanisms that help to understand their spatial and formal richness.","PeriodicalId":40549,"journal":{"name":"Cuaderno de Notas","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46885751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cubiertas, composición volumétrica y proporciones en Madīnat al-Zahrā’ = Roofs, volumetric composition and proportions in Madīnat al-Zahrā’","authors":"Federico Iborra Bernad","doi":"10.20868/cn.2021.4742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20868/cn.2021.4742","url":null,"abstract":"ResumenUna de las cosas que más nos llama la atención en las restituciones de los palacios califales de Madīnat al-Zahrā’ o de la almunia de al-Rummanīyya es la configuración de las cubiertas, resueltas a cuatro aguas individualmente sobre cada una de las habitaciones de los edificios. Esta propuesta, muy difundida en publicaciones de divulgación donde se necesita concretar una imagen totalmente definida, parte de premisas dudosas y no tiene una clara justificación a nivel funcional. Por otro lado, la arquitectura califal se caracteriza por el uso recurrente de alhanías cuadradas, perfectamente delimitadas por muros de carga de gran espesor, tanto en el cuerpo principal como en los pórticos. En época posterior estos elementos de división irán perdiendo importancia, convirtiéndose en simples arcos de yeso y desapareciendo en las arcadas frontales. En este texto nos planteamos algunas preguntas sobre su origen y función, tanto compositiva como estructural, estableciendo una posible relación entre la solución planimétrica y las cubiertas del edificio.AbstractOne of the most striking aspects in the restorations of Caliphal palaces of Madīnat al-Zahrā’ or al-Rummanīyya almunia is the configuration of the roofs, resolved individually on four slopes over each of the rooms of buildings. This proposal, widely disseminated in popular publications which need to define a image, comes from dubious premises and has not a clear justification in a functional sense. On the other hand, Caliphal architecture is characterized by the recurrent use of square rooms, perfectly delimited by heavy load-bearing walls, both in the main body and in the porticoes. In later times, these dividing elements will gradually lose importance, turning into simple plaster arches in the rear and disappearing into the front. In this text we ask ourselves some questions about its origin and function, both compositional and structural, establishing a possible relationship between the planimetric solution and the roofs of the building.","PeriodicalId":40549,"journal":{"name":"Cuaderno de Notas","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43641233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"El valor ensayístico de la entrevista en arquitectura = The essayistic value of the interview in architecture","authors":"Antonio Cantero Vinuesa","doi":"10.20868/cn.2021.4753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20868/cn.2021.4753","url":null,"abstract":"ResumenEl lugar de la historia oral dentro de la historiografía de la arquitectura moderna aún no está suficientemente entendido y, por lo tanto, su posible utilización se ha visto mermada desde la explosión en los sesenta de publicaciones que ilustraron el canon arquitectónico moderno del «medio es el mensaje». Ver en la transmisión oral de entrevistas un medio documental de memoria hablada expande el campo de producción teórica disponible. La propuesta consiste en una reflexión teórica crucial pero en gran medida olvidada: el papel de la entrevista en la práctica arquitectónica. No entrevistas de arquitectos sino entrevistas realizadas por arquitectos. Si la entrevista supone el entrenamiento sobre la oralidad como práctica proyectual, el propósito es tratar el valor ensayístico de una poco conceptualizada entrevista arquitectónica como instrumento intelectual frente a otras prácticas habituales; y con ello, abrir el discurso a un lugar fértil de avance en el estudio de la disciplina.AbstractThe place of oral history within the historiography of modern architecture is still not sufficiently understood and, therefore, its possible use has been diminished since the explosion in the 1960s of publications that illustrated the modern architectural canon of “the medium is the message”. Seeing the oral transmission of interviews as a documentary medium of spoken memory expands the field of available theoretical production. The proposal explores a crucial but largely overlooked question: the role of the interview in architectural practice —not interviews of architects but interviews by architects—. If the interview involves training on orality as a projectual practice, the purpose is to deal with the essayistic value of a little conceptualised architectural interview as an intellectual instrument as opposed to other habitual practices; and with this, to open up the discourse to a fertile place of progress in the study of the discipline.","PeriodicalId":40549,"journal":{"name":"Cuaderno de Notas","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44121195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Her Dream Home : Domesticity and Gender in Advertising in Arts & Architecture = El Hogar de sus Sueños: domesticidad y género en la Publicidad de Arts & Architecture","authors":"D. Díez Martínez","doi":"10.20868/cn.2021.4748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20868/cn.2021.4748","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractIn the United States, with the end of World War II, a cultural and territorial model based on the suburban lifestyle took root. Women had taken an active role during the conflict, but postwar American society returned them to the background, restricting them to the care of family and home. The domestic space became again a distinctly female ecosystem. From a gender perspective this article explores how the discourse on housewives and domesticity was expressed in the specialized press, particularly in advertisements published in Arts & Architecture. It tries to show how advertising contributed to the association drawn between women and the domestic sphere, and in particular to the idea of the kitchen as an inherently feminine space. Women were mostly assigned an ornamental role as passive consumers, but occasionally they were portrayed as experts capable of instructing architects on how to design the home.ResumenEl final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial consolidó en Estados Unidos un modelo cultural y territorial basado en el estilo de vida suburbano. Aunque las mujeres habían tenido un papel activo durante el conflicto, la sociedad estadounidense de posguerra las relegó a una posición secundaria limitada a las tareas de cuidado familiar y del hogar, por lo que el espacio doméstico se convirtió en un ecosistema netamente femenino. El objetivo de este artículo consiste en estudiar cómo se estructuró este discurso en la prensa especializada utilizando los anuncios de la revista Arts & Architecture. Se muestra cómo la publicidad contribuyó a la asociación entre la mujer y el ámbito doméstico, y en particular a definir la cocina como un espacio inherentemente femenino. A las mujeres se les asignó principalmente un papel ornamental como consumidoras pasivas, aunque ocasionalmente también aparecían como expertas capaces de instruir a los arquitectos sobre cómo diseñar una casa.","PeriodicalId":40549,"journal":{"name":"Cuaderno de Notas","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48323280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Proyectos para un paisaje de la memoria : el Concurso para el Memorial de Auschwitz-Birkenau = Projects for a landscape of memory: The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Competition","authors":"Darío Álvarez Álvarez","doi":"10.20868/cn.2021.4752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20868/cn.2021.4752","url":null,"abstract":"ResumenEl concurso para el Memorial de Auschwitz-Birkeanu, iniciado en 1957, representa un hito en la reflexión sobre el sentido de un paisaje arquitectónico de la memoria en la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Los proyectos que se presentaron en las diferentes fases del concurso, que se alargó diez años hasta 1967, contienen no solo una fuerte carga formal sino una importante búsqueda conceptual por reflejar y sintetizar de manera simbólica, mediante elementos arquitectónicos y de paisaje, la huella de todo el horror que se había vivido en el campo de exterminio polaco. De entre todos ellos destaca el proyecto “The Road”, del equipo dirigido por el arquitecto Oskar Hansen, una propuesta que, de haberse realizado, hubiese marcado un sentido nuevo en el proyecto de paisajes arquitectónicos en su relación con los movimientos plásticos de vanguardia. Sin embargo, el resultado final del concurso fue la construcción de un mero monumento conmemorativo de escaso carácter, perdiendo así una gran oportunidad en la investigación y el desarrollo de los paisajes arquitectónicos contemporáneos.AbstractThe competition for the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial, started in 1957, represents a milestone in the reflection on the meaning of an architectural landscape of memory in the second half of the 20th century. The projects that were presented in the different phases of the contest, which lasted ten years until 1967, contain not only a strong formal charge but also an important conceptual search to symbolically reflect and synthesize, through architectural and landscape elements, the footprint of all the horror that had been lived in the Polish Death Camp. Among all of them stands out the project “The Road”, developed by the team led by the architect Oskar Hansen, a proposal that, if it had been carried out, would have marked a new meaning in the architectural landscape project in its relationship with avant-garde plastic movements. However, the end result of the competition was the construction of a mere commemorative monument of little character, thus missing a great opportunity in the research and development of contemporary architectural landscapes. ","PeriodicalId":40549,"journal":{"name":"Cuaderno de Notas","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48967804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A vueltas con la función y de vuelta a la forma : apuntes críticos en torno a la Casa de Baños de Trenton = Around function and back to form : A critical inquiry into the Trenton Bath House","authors":"Guiomar Martín Domínguez","doi":"10.20868/cn.2021.4749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20868/cn.2021.4749","url":null,"abstract":"ResumenDurante los años cincuenta, en su búsqueda de alternativas a la planta libre, Kahn sentó las bases de una auténtica (contra)revolución espacial, fundada en el reconocimiento de la estancia como entidad arquitectónica de carácter primigenio. Tras los ensayos teóricos de las Casas Adler y DeVore, el pabellón de Baños de Trenton materializa de manera ejemplar el proceso de emancipación de la forma arquitectónica propuesto por Kahn en esos años, desde la experimentación consciente con mecanismos geométricos repetitivos. El presente artículo aborda esta cuestión desde dos perspectivas entrelazadas: por un lado, tomando el concepto de emancipación como sinónimo de autonomía física, perceptiva y simbólica de la estancia, basada en un renovado compromiso entre envolvente y estructura. Y por otro, como sinónimo de independencia entre espacio y función, una lección extraída del pasado que Kahn supo manipular y adaptar al presente, en un momento clave de su carrera fuertemente influenciado por Anne Tyng.AbstractDuring the 1950s, in his search for alternatives to the open plan, Kahn laid the foundations for a real spatial (counter)revolution, founded on the recognition of the room as a primary architectural entity. After the theoretical projects for the Adler and DeVore Houses, the Trenton Bath House was materialized as an illustrating example of the emancipation process of the architectural form proposed by Kahn in those years, based on a conscious experimentation with geometrical patterns. This article addresses this issue from two intertwined perspectives. On the one hand, it takes the concept of emancipation as synonymous with the physical, perceptual and symbolic autonomy of the room, based on a renewed allegiance between enclosure and structure. On the other hand, it understands emancipation as synonymous with independence between space and function, a lesson that Kahn drew from the past and that he was able to reshape and adapt to the present, in a key moment of his career strongly influenced by Anne Tyng. ","PeriodicalId":40549,"journal":{"name":"Cuaderno de Notas","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42368899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Arquitectura y medioambiente: una bibliografía crítica = Architecture and Environment: a Critical Bibliography","authors":"Eduardo Antonio Prieto González","doi":"10.20868/cn.2021.4754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20868/cn.2021.4754","url":null,"abstract":"ResumenLa tradición historiográfica y crítica de la arquitectura se ha sostenido en conceptos —los estilos, los autores, las sociedades, las culturas, los modos de producción— tomados en su mayor parte de los enfoques formalistas propios de la Historia del Arte. Se trata de conceptos que han dado pie a relatos elaborados de ‘arriba abajo’ donde no han tenido cabida otros temas más infraestructurales como el entorno, los recursos materiales, el confort y la experiencia corporal. Con todo, existe una tradición bibliográfica con una prosapia corta, pero rica y original, cuyo tema ha sido la relación de la arquitectura con el campo semántico amplio y complejo que hoy cubre la palabra ‘medioambiente’; una tradición que ha estado definida tanto por los paradigmas medioambienta-les de la arquitectura del siglo xx —paradigmas higienista, tecnocráctico, bioclimático, ecológico, termodinámico y sostenible— cuanto por los paradigmas estéticos y filosóficos de otras disciplinas —paradigmas estructuralista, antropológico, fenomenológico, atmosférico, antropotécnico o ecológico ‘profundo’—. Hoy, este bagaje bibliográfico tiende a enriquecerse y ampliarse por medio de las herramientas analíticas, hermenéuticas y críticas de la historia en cuanto disciplina para dar pie a una nueva y necesaria ‘historia medioambiental de la arquitectura’.AbstractThe historiographic and critical tradition of architecture has been sustained by concepts— styles, authors, societies, cultures, modes of production—taken for the most part from the formalistic approaches pertaining to the History of Art. These are concepts that have given rise to elaborate ‘top-down’ stories where more infrastructural issues—such as the environment, material resources, comfort, and bodily experience—have not had a place. Nevertheless, there is a bibliographic tradition—of short lineage, yet rich and original— that has tackled architecture’s relationship with the broad and complex semantic field now encompassed in the word ‘environment’; a tradition defined as much by the environmental paradigms of 20th-century architecture—hygienist, technocratic, bioclimatic, ecological, thermodynamic, and sustainable paradigms—as by the aesthetic and philosophical paradigms of other disciplines—structuralist, anthropological, phenomenological, atmospheric, anthropotechnical, and ‘deep’ ecological paradigms. Today this bibliographic baggage tends to be enriched and expanded by means of the analytical, hermeneutical, and critical tools of history, in pursuit of a new and necessary ‘environmental history of architecture’.","PeriodicalId":40549,"journal":{"name":"Cuaderno de Notas","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47875229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La regeneración de infraestructuras abandonadas en la ciudad contemporánea : proyectar el futuro del aeropuerto de Tempelhof en Berlín = The regeneration of abandoned infrastructures in the Contemporary City : Projecting the future of the Berlin Tempelhof Airport","authors":"Alonso Sanz Merlo","doi":"10.20868/cn.2021.4756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20868/cn.2021.4756","url":null,"abstract":"ResumenEl acelerado desarrollo físico de las infraestructuras urbanas durante la Revolución Industrial y la evolución que estas han sufrido, han producido que hoy en día se encuentren algunos de estos espacios abandonados en el interior de las ciudades. Las experiencias de la revitalización del Parque de la Villette en París y del High Line de Nueva York se relacionan entre sí al tratar de potenciar los elementos patrimoniales existentes que construyen el lugar, y que junto a su vegetación endémica y su riqueza histórica, impulsan su progreso. Estos dos casos contextualizan la apertura al público en 2010 del campo aéreo de Tempelhofer Feld en Berlín. El estudio de la emblemática historia de esta gran infraestructura verde y el desarrollo urbano a su alrededor son las claves que guían esta investigación, conjugadas en todo momento con las necesidades sostenibles de la ciudad contemporánea. El edificio del aeropuerto, proyectado por Ernst Sagebiel como una monumental infraestructura multifuncional con visos a convertirse en un hito internacional, sitúa el paisaje de Tempelhof como un nuevo reto del patrimonio industrial para el siglo XXI.AbstractThe accelerated physical development of urban infrastructures during the Industrial Revolution and their evolution have produced some of these spaces are being found today abandoned in the inside of the cities. The experiences of the revitalisation of the Parc de la Villette in Paris and the regeneration of the High Line of New York relate to each other by seeking to enhance the existing heritage elements that build the place, and which together with its endemic vegetation and historical richness, drive its progress. These two cases contextualise the 2010 opening of the Tempelhofer Feld airfield in Berlin to the public. The study of the emblematic history of this great green infrastructure and the urban development around it are the keys guiding this research, combined at all times with the sustainable needs of the contemporary city. The airport building, designed by Ernst Sagebiel as a monumental multifunctional infrastructure with the potential to become an international landmark, places the Tempelhof landscape as a new industrial heritage challenge for the 21st century.","PeriodicalId":40549,"journal":{"name":"Cuaderno de Notas","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42510767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eline Maria Mora Pereira Caixeta, Christine Ramos Mahler
{"title":"Arquitectura y olvido : el Jockey Club de Goiás de Paulo Mendes da Rocha = Architecture and oblivion: the Jockey Club of Goiás by Paulo Mendes da Rocha","authors":"Eline Maria Mora Pereira Caixeta, Christine Ramos Mahler","doi":"10.20868/cn.2021.4750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20868/cn.2021.4750","url":null,"abstract":"ResumenEste artículo presenta el estudio de una obra de Paulo Mendes da Rocha: el Jockey Club de Goiás, ubicado en el interior de Brasil. El objeto está poco explorado en las publicaciones, carece de una comprensión más profunda de sus valores materiales e inmateriales. El enfoque se centra en la trayectoria del edificio, contextualizando su diseño y construcción, con una mirada a la apropiación del espacio, desde el auge hasta la decadencia de este equipamiento urbano social y deportivo, con miras a su conservación y reinserción urbana. El objetivo es demostrar su importancia cultural, ya sea a través de la escala urbana, la ubicación estratégica, la calidad tectónica y el valor ambiental. Estos atributos justifican y posibilitan su reinserción en la ciudad del siglo XXI, con la absorción de nuevos usos relacionados a su vocación original. La discusión abre el camino para prácticas de conservación de edificios modernos en Brasil, más allá de la restauración. AbstractThis paper presents the case of one of Paulo Mendes da Rocha’s works: the Jockey Club of Goiás, located in the interior of Brazil. The object is little explored in publications, lacking a deeper understanding for its material and immaterial values. The approach focuses on the building’s trajectory, contextualizing its design and construction, with a look at the appropriation of space, from the heyday to the decadence of this urban social and sporting equipment, with a view to its conservation and urban reintegration. The aim is to demonstrate its cultural significance, whether through urban scale strategic location, tectonic quality and environmental value. These attributes justify and enable its insertion in the 21s century city with the absorption of new uses related to its original vocation. The discussion opens the way for conservation practices of modern buildings in Brazil, beyond restoration. ","PeriodicalId":40549,"journal":{"name":"Cuaderno de Notas","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45766979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}