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"This book brings together the most recent buildings and projects by the Mexican architect Alberto Kalach, special emphasis being placed on the first steps of the process of each of these. As if it were a sort of log or sketch pad, the book sets out to highlight the essence of his ideas and the immediacy of his first few pencil strokes. Structured typologically, the tour through Kalach's work takes in single-family houses, apartment buildings, various designs for tower blocks and his famous project for the lake city (awarded a prize at the 2002 Venice Biennale), in which he proposes rehydrating the dried up aquiferous areas of Mexico City.
Miquel Adrià (Barcelona, 1956) lives in Mexico, where he combines his architectural practice with teaching and criticism. he is editor-in-chief of the international architectural magazine Arquine and author of numerous books.
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Alberto Kalach - Miquel AdriÃ
Paradise is a Garden
Alberto Kalach
José MarÃa BuendÃa, one of architecture's few masters, made it very clear to whoever passed through his metaphysical classroom, that house, patio and garden are inseparable. In his classes he provocatively derided architectural masterworks for ignoring external space as part of the whole. In an argument he was able to demolish Le Corbusier's "necrophiliac pilotis" or the Miesian box divorced from its surroundings. Sensorial experience in preference to conceptualism; sequence rather than the single space; the narration of a fantastic tale and not the demonstration of a genial idea; the labyrinth versus the glass box. The garden, then, becomes part of that narration; the diffuse, secret garden, compartmentalized, with perfumes and fresh breezes, is the building's living part.
Tonatiuh MartÃnez, gardener, vet and landscapist in the widest sense, connoisseur of the land and of ancestral forms and customs, speaks of plants as the garden's main protagonists, with their relationships and their preferences. He puts together and lays out plants like instruments of an orchestra, yet according to a natural subject matter.
Both masters show that a good garden enhances architecture and helps conceal its ordinariness. Despite being static, architecture changes with the light, gives rise to spatial sequences that alter our perception, generates surroundings that in turn create states of mind.
Gardens are spatial constructs that follow the warp and woof of the architecture, yet with a difference: matter is living, it grows, transpires, changes smell, color and shape; the play of the senses increases and the palette of materials expands in dozens of alternatives which change with the seasons and the days. The flowers open, move with the wind; the light increases, the senses expand...
Paradise is a garden.
Index of contents of:
Alberto Kalach - Miquel AdriÃ
Contents
7 The Architect's Garden
Miquel AdriÃ
12 A. K. 43
Humberto Ricalde
22 Paradise is a Garden
Alberto Kalach
24 Valle de Bravo House
36 Black House
54 GGG House
72 Mojada House
78 La Atalaya House
88 Essays on Housing Typologies
90 Dam
91 Amsterdam
92 Mexico Park
93 Campeche
94 Sombrerete
98 Trimétika Tower
99 O Building
100 Parroquia Building
110 Primitive Buildings
112 Tres Vidas
113 Ixtapa
114 The Lightning Bolt
120 Hotel in the Caribbean
124 Inhabitable Structures
126 Monterrey College of Technology
129 Cinemas and auditorium
130 Classrooms and laboratories
132 Computer center
134 Workshops
138 Augen Research Center
150 Reforma 222 Towers
154 Punta Ixtapa Towers
160 The Lake City"
Product details - Paperback 168 pages
- Publisher Editorial Gustavo Gili; 1st. edition (September 2004)
- Language Spanish
- ISBN-10 9688874019
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- This book brings together the most recent buildings and projects by the Mexican architect Alberto Kalach, special emphasis being placed on the first steps of the process of each of these. As if it were a sort of log or sketch pad, the book sets out to highlight the essence of his ideas and the immediacy of his first few pencil strokes. Structured typologically, the tour through Kalach's work takes in single-family houses, apartment buildings, various designs for tower blocks and his famous project for the lake city (awarded a prize at the 2002 Venice Biennale), in which he proposes rehydrating the dried up aquiferous areas of Mexico City.
Miquel Adrià (Barcelona, 1956) lives in Mexico, where he combines his architectural practice with teaching and criticism. he is editor-in-chief of the international architectural magazine Arquine and author of numerous books.
Excerpts of
Alberto Kalach - Miquel AdriÃ
Paradise is a Garden
Alberto Kalach
José MarÃa BuendÃa, one of architecture's few masters, made it very clear to whoever passed through his metaphysical classroom, that house, patio and garden are inseparable. In his classes he provocatively derided architectural masterworks for ignoring external space as part of the whole. In an argument he was able to demolish Le Corbusier's "necrophiliac pilotis" or the Miesian box divorced from its surroundings. Sensorial experience in preference to conceptualism; sequence rather than the single space; the narration of a fantastic tale and not the demonstration of a genial idea; the labyrinth versus the glass box. The garden, then, becomes part of that narration; the diffuse, secret garden, compartmentalized, with perfumes and fresh breezes, is the building's living part.
Tonatiuh MartÃnez, gardener, vet and landscapist in the widest sense, connoisseur of the land and of ancestral forms and customs, speaks of plants as the garden's main protagonists, with their relationships and their preferences. He puts together and lays out plants like instruments of an orchestra, yet according to a natural subject matter.
Both masters show that a good garden enhances architecture and helps conceal its ordinariness. Despite being static, architecture changes with the light, gives rise to spatial sequences that alter our perception, generates surroundings that in turn create states of mind.
Gardens are spatial constructs that follow the warp and woof of the architecture, yet with a difference matter is living, it grows, transpires, changes smell, color and shape; the play of the senses increases and the palette of materials expands in dozens of alternatives which change with the seasons and the days. The flowers open, move with the wind; the light increases, the senses expand...
Paradise is a garden.
Index of contents of
Alberto Kalach - Miquel AdriÃ
Contents
7 The Architect's Garden
Miquel AdriÃ
12 A. K. 43
Humberto Ricalde
22 Paradise is a Garden
Alberto Kalach
24 Valle de Bravo House
36 Black House
54 GGG House
72 Mojada House
78 La Atalaya House
88 Essays on Housing Typologies
90 Dam
91 Amsterdam
92 Mexico Park
93 Campeche
94 Sombrerete
98 Trimétika Tower
99 O Building
100 Parroquia Building
110 Primitive Buildings
112 Tres Vidas
113 Ixtapa
114 The Lightning Bolt
120 Hotel in the Caribbean
124 Inhabitable Structures
126 Monterrey College of Technology
129 Cinemas and auditorium
130 Classrooms and laboratories
132 Computer center
134 Workshops
138 Augen Research Center
150 Reforma 222 Towers
154 Punta Ixtapa Towers
160 The Lake City
