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Arquitectura Viva 201 50 FROM AFRICA AND ASIA

Arquitectura Viva 201
50 FROM AFRICA AND ASIA

In Short. OMA completes the Qatar National Library; Josep M. Martorell dies; G.a-Germán finishes the Desert City in Madrid; Campo Baeza builds a sports center in Pozuelo; Kogan raises his first work in Spain; the Spanish Association of Architecture Institutes pins medals on Batlle i Roig and De La-Hoz; Martínez Lapeña & Torres win the National Award for Architecture; Guo-Qiang, Kentridge, and Mehretu are subjects of exhibitions; and Fujii constructs a house in Yokohama.
Emerging Contexts. The West and Japan have traditionally been foci of modern architecture, but globalization tends to change things. In the Far East, the Indian Subcontinent, and Africa, architectural practices crop up with intentions of joining the current of modernization, but reinterpreting vernacular architecture to address complex climatic, economic, and social contexts. Arquitectura Viva takes stock of this rich panorama through a selection of 50 studios, 42 of which come in a small atlas of offices based in or working in countries like China, Vietnam, Thailand, Bangladesh, India, Rwanda, and Angola. The other 8 are featured at greater length through works of their own: RAW Architecture, with a school in Tangerang (Indonesia); RUF, with the rebuilding of the village of Jintai (China); TAO, with a bamboo factory in Xingcun (China); Vo Trong Nghia, with a civic center on Diamond Island (Vietnam); 1+1>2, with a community center in Cam Thanh (Vietnam); feat. collective, with a learning center in Batticaloa (Sri Lanka); Urko Sánchez, with social dwellings in Tadjoura (Djibouti); and Francis Kéré, with a surgical center in Léo (Burkina Faso).

Moderate Modernity. Luis Fernández-Galiano analyzes the fundamental works of Madrid’s so-called Generation of 1925, composed of architects distanced from formal radicalisms who pursued a reasonable rationalism; a generation that included Carlos Arniches and Martín Domínguez, whose oeuvre, currently on view at Museo ICO in Madrid, is presented here by Salvador Guerrero.
The Life of Buildings. Two publications look at Rafael Moneo’s engagement with history and architectural criticism: one compiles his writings on the Great Mosque of Córdoba, the lonja of Seville, and Rodríguez-Acosta’s carmen in Granada; the other presents course material of his time as a professor in Barcelona. In addition, two volumes of essays by and on Peter Eisenman.

Dossier: Kitchens. The kitchen has not only been one of the main technological and typological laboratories of modernity; it has also been a social testing ground where women have played a key role. This is the gist of an article where Luis Fernández-Galiano, on the thread of previous works including Fire and Memory, traces the genealogy of the kitchen, following a chain whose links are figures ranging from Benjamin Franklin, Count Rumford, and the so-called ‘smoke doctors’ to premodern and modern heroines like Catherine Beecher, Christine Frederick, Paulette Bernège, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, and Lillian Gilbreth.

To close, biographical sketches of the five great architectural historians who passed away in 2017: Ackerman, Benevolo, Sekler, Oliver, and Scully.

50 from Africa and Asia
Build for the Real World
Dossier: Kitchens

News
Rem Koolhaas in Qatar
Josep Martorell, in memoriam
Three Madrid Works
Medals and Awards
Gunpowder or Drawings: 3 Shows
S. Fujii, House in Yokohama

42+8 Faraway Firms

RAW Architecture
School, Indonesia

RUF / Univ. Hong Kong
Jintai Reconstruction, China

Hua Li / TAO
Bamboo Factory, China

Vo Trong Nghia
Civic Center, Vietnam

1+1>2
Community Center, Vietnam

feat.collective
Learning Center, Sri Lanka

Urko Sánchez
Social Dwellings, Djibouti

Francis Kéré
Surgical Center, Burkina Faso

Art / Culture

Luis Fernández-Galiano
Reasonable Rationalism
Madrid, the Generation of 1925

Salvador Guerrero
From the Republic to Exile
Arniches & Domínguez at ICO

Books
Forms, Ideas, Investigations
Moneo in Season
An Anthology of Essays
Dialogues with Eisenman
Publications Received

Technique / Construction

Luis Fernández-Galiano
A Short History of the Kitchen
—Catherine Beecher
—Christine Frederick
—Paulette Bernège
—Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky
—Lillian Gilbreth
—From Functionalism to Relish

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Luis Fernández-Galiano
Office for the Dead