ARQUITECTURA Y DERECHOS DE AUTOR. A propósito del Ágora.   Javier Domínguez Rodrigo. Arquitecto.   Valencia será la octava ciudad española en disponer de un CaixaForum y la intención de la entidad catalana de elegir el Ágora para su instalación abre de nuevo el debate sobre los derechos de autor de los arquitectos. La polémica […]

A BID FOR QUALITY IN ARCHITECTURE. Concerning competitions.   Competitions are the ideal melting pot in which professionals can contribute their ideas, their capacity for seduction, their fantasies, aesthetic universes, their utopias…   A extensive range of great works occupying prominent places in the history of architecture today have their origins in competitions: the revolutionary […]

LA CERÁMICA COSMOÍSTA DE NASSIO.   Javier Domínguez Rodrigo. Arquitecto.   La historia contemporánea de la plástica valenciana encuentra en la obra de Nassio a uno de sus creadores más sólidos y fecundos. Este maestro indiscutible de la forma es un auténtico alquimista de la materia y sobre todo un formidable escultor que funde tradición […]

THE CITY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES http://wsimag.com/architecture-and-design/20380-the-city-of-arts-and-sciences   An unmistakable symbol of modernity and an indisputable landmark in the urban landscape, the City of Arts and Sciences is the major architectural icon of 21st-century Valencia, an authentic brand image.   This site represents the largest public investment of the Regional Government in recent decades, conceived […]

THE CHAPEL OF SAN JORGE DEL PUIG. Memory and Iconography.   October 9th is the Day of the Valencian Community, a date commemorating the entry into the city of its new King Jaime I in 1238. The conquest of Valencia, however, was much more than a result of the territorial expansion of the Crown of […]

THE ARCHITECT’S LOOK. “…Sólo el poeta puede mirar lo que está lejos dentro del alma…” Antonio Machado. http://wsimag.com/architecture-and-design/19549-the-architects-look   It is almost a century now since Berlin, starting off on Kantian transcendental idealism, gave rise to the Central European psychologists Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Köhler, who formulated their laws on perception (equivalence, symmetry, […]

POR UNA NUEVA POLÍTICA URBANA.   Javier Domínguez Rodrigo. Arquitecto.     Hacer más fácil y legible para los valencianos el complejo marco normativo que ordena el urbanismo tanto en la Comunitat como en la mayoría de sus Ayuntamientos debería ser una prioridad para los gobiernos surgidos de las urnas el pasado 24 de mayo […]

ORATORIO DE SAN FELIPE NERI in ALBACETE. Religious Architecture and Modernity. http://wsimag.com/architecture-and-design/18934-oratorio-de-san-felipe-neri-in-albacete   In 1963 a young man hardly 28 years old raised a small temple in his home town which half a century later would be considered as one of the finest examples of Spanish 20th-century architecture, being exhibited at the Spanish Pavilion of […]

TERRITORIO Y GOBERNANZA.   Javier Domínguez Rodrigo. Arquitecto.   La reforma de la organización territorial y la racionalización de la excesiva burocracia y dimensión de la administración local son algunas de las asignaturas pendientes de la España democrática, que aún hoy continúa siendo el único país europeo que no ha reducido el número de sus […]

ON «CONSTANT. NEW BABYLON». http://wsimag.com/architecture-and-design/19100-on-constant-new-babylon   The Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, in collaboration with the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, will be hosting the exhibition called «Constant. New Babylon» until 9 February, bringing together some 150 works by the founder of the CoBrA European avant-garde movement active from 1948 to 1951.   The show gives us […]