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Arquitectura Viva 207 More City

Arquitectura Viva 207 More City / Más ciudad

In Short. Elisa Valero gets the Swiss Architectural Award; Carrilho da Graça opens the Cruise Terminal of Lisbon; Smiljan Radic and Studio Muoto complete urban condensers in Chile and France, respectively; three exhibitions: Manifesta 12 in Palermo, Yugoslavian brutalism at MoMA, Papanek at the Vitra Museum; and Arnau estudi builds the Retina House.

Urban Protagonists. Eduardo Prieto writes a chronicle of the Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad’s fifth congress, held in June in Pamplona, and through four interviews presents the city theme from two different perspectives: that of literary writers and that of politicians. In the first interview, Eduardo Mendoza – winner of the 2017 Cervantes Prize – describes the rogue side of the anarchic, pre-Olympic Barcelona, turned into a quarry of themes, scenes, and characters for his novels. Mendoza’s novelistic outlook is complemented by that of the Cuban author Leonardo Padura, recipient of the 2015 Princess of Asturias Award for Literature, who explains the importance that Havana, his native city, has had in his work. In the third interview, Manuela Carmena, Mayor of Madrid, upholds an urban management model based on principles like participation, solidarity, sustainability, and creativity. Finally, Joan Clos looks back on his time as Mayor of Barcelona in the post-Olympic period, and from his privileged perch as former director of UN-Habitat issues a warning about the great challenges of urban growth on a global scale. For his part, José María Ezquiaga, urban planner and dean of the Madrid Institute of Architects, discusses the thinking and oeuvre of two figures at the congress: Jan Gehl and Jaime Lerner.

Commitment and Transparency. Mara Sánchez Llorens presents, alongside Manuel Fontán del Junco and María Toledo, an exhibition at the March Foundation (Madrid) that goes through the Brazilian period of the life of Lina Bo Bardi, and Oliver Wainwright analyzes a monographic show at the Cartier Foundation (Paris) that looks at the borderless architectures of Junya Ishigami.

Red Label. Luis Fernández-Galiano reviews four books produced by the publisher Acantilado. Also, a monumental two-volume work on elements of the city; a study on the urbanism of Haussmann’s Paris and its relevance to the challenges of the future; and a classroom publication that reflects on the architect’s role as a mediator in urban planning.

Dossier: Industrial Heritage. Technical expertise aside, working on industrial heritage requires a certain dose of ideology. This is the thesis defended by the specialist Javier Mosteiro in an article followed by a selection of three industrial buildings, all located in Spain, which have been turned into cultural complexes: a workers’ cooperative transformed into the Lleialtat Civic Center (Barcelona) by Harquitectes; a hydraulic pumps factory converted into the Bombas Gens Art Center (Valencia) by R. Esteve, E. de Miguel, and A. Selldorf; and an old tannery renovated as a Professional Training Center (Santiago de Compostela) by V. López Cotelo and A. Panero.

To close, a biographical sketch of the multifaceted career of the recently deceased Vicente Verdú, frequent contributor to Arquitectura Viva.