Title & Author:

City context & culture revalued / [presented by] Miguel Angel Roca.

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1982.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (29 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Miguel Angel Roca -- Plaza De Armas, Cordoba, Argentina, 1979 -- Axonometric Plan Of Whole Pedestrian Area, Cordoba, 1979 -- 1980 -- Marble Shadow In Pedestrian Mall, Monserrat, 1979 -- Pedestrian Mall, Rivera Indarte Lane, 1979 -- 1980 -- Creeper Supports, Nueve De Julio Pedestrian Mall, 1979 -- 1980 -- Plaza Espana, Cordoba, 1969. Aerial & Night Views -- Paseo De Las Artes Cultural Centre, Cordoba, 1979 -- 1980 -- San Vicente Market Community Centre, Cordoba, 1980 -- Cerro San Bernardo Housing, Salta, 1970 -- Senillosa Neuquen Low-Cost Housing, 1978 -- University Houses, Cordoba, 1971 -- Paseo Azul Shopping Centre, Cordoba, 1978 -- Bank Of Cordoba Province, Rio Tercero, City Branch, 1972 -- Bank Of Cordoba Province, Buenos Aires Branch, 1972.

Summary:

Miguel Roca, in 14 years of professional practice before 1982, produced over 100 projects, half of them built, the majority in his native Argentina, in the city of Cordoba where he teaches at the National University and where he is Secretary of Public Works for the City Council. For him, public space is the raw material and basic setting for the life of a city, as evidenced in his transformation of Cordoba. Hitherto a typical Spanish colonial town laid out on an orthogonal grid with central square, cathedral, town hall and river, the centre has been turned by Roca into shaded pedestrian malls, the historic buildings celebrated by projecting their shadows in marble onto the paving in front of them. He has converted the sluggish river into a formal park and he has made visual and physical links between the centre and other restyled urban features - squares, cultural centres, etc. He has given the city a language, an image, a coherence. The innovative quality of his architecture is equally striking, as can be seen in the branches he has built for the Bank of Cordoba.

Subject:

City planning Spain.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture, Modern.
City planning.
Spain.

Added entries:

Roca, Miguel Angel, narrator.

City context and culture revalued