Title & Author:

Office of Architecture in Barcelona / Carlos Ferrater & partners.

Publication:

Barcelona ; New York : Actar, [2010]

Description:

303 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-303).
OAB, Office of Architecture in Barcelona -- Revisiting the Barcelona Botanical Garden, 1989-1999-2009 -- Residential architecture and the city -- Intermodal -- Rediscovering the Eixample morphology -- From the Royal Quarters to the Granada Science Park -- The permanence of the ephemeral: The Escher Universe -- Between the sea and the Venetian Lagoon -- Confrontation mechanisms: competitions -- Azahar: a sustainable building -- Small urban actions -- Confluence and relations with France, Boulogne -- Audiovisual Campus in 22@ district: Mediapro -- Roca Barcelona Gallery -- In the Atapuerca Mountains: archaeology and landscape -- Benidorm West Beach Promenade -- Housing and inhabitants: from Alcanar to the AA House -- Carlos Ferrater, 1971-2004.

Summary:

With the publication of the book Synchronizing Geometry, in 2006 the baseline of a typical OAB theoretical discourse was established in which a series of projects under development or construction stressed the importance of a theoretical background in the professional practice of architecture. A few years later, this book arrives showing the work carried out and now going into more depth on the direction and approach of Ferrater / OAB. It also analyses and reflects on the career of Carlos Ferrater, as well as the results of the development of a new office involving a group of young architects, including family members. The book explains how from experience and the examination and manipulation of some complex geometries a critical and theoretical vision of reality is established, assuming at all times rigour, social roots, landscape and construction. For this reason, the book also reveals how the activity of OAB is not only developed in the execution of construction projects.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

9788492861231
8492861231

Subject:

Ferrater, Carlos, 1944- Catalogs.
Ferrater, Carlos.
Ferrater, Carlos, 1944-
Office of Architecture in Barcelona (Firm) Catalogs.
Office of Architecture in Barcelona (Firm)
Architecture Spain History 21st century Catalogs.
Architecture, Modern 21st century Catalogs.
Architecture Espagne Histoire 21e siècle Catalogues.
Architecture 21e siècle Catalogues.
Architecture Spain History Catalogs. 21st century.
Architecture, Modern Catalogs. 21st century.
Architecture
Architecture, Modern
Spain
Carlos Ferrater & Arquitectos Asociados

Form/genre:

catalogs (documents)
Catalogs
History
Catalogues.

Added entries:

Ferrater, Carlos, 1944-

OAB

Holdings:

Location: Library main 274384
Call No.: NA44.F379.23 O3 2010
Status: Available