Architecture + Urbanism recommends 'Rafael Moneo: Building Teaching Writing'

RAFAEL MONEO: BUILDING TEACHING WRITING

by Francisco Gonzalez de Canales and Nicholas Ray

(Yale University Press 2015)

The Spanish architect Rafael Moneo (b. 1937) has won numerous awards (including the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize), yet this publication is the first to offer a critical study of his career as a whole-not only his many built works and projects but also his contributions to teaching and his writings. The book begins with a comprehensive biography, covering Moneo's education, teaching appointments, and encounters with historians and architects in Europe and the United States, such as Peter Eisenman, Jorn Utzon, and Bruno Zevi. Also included is a discussion of some of the buildings that he has designed, notably the Prado Museum extension and Atocha Station in Madrid. The following section examines in more detail seven key buildings chosen to illustrate crucial developments in Moneo's thinking, from the Bankinter, Madrid, to the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles. The last and most extensive section considers his architectural philosophy: his design approach, his idea of the canon, his theory of composition, his notion of form, and his confrontation with reality-in construction and context.

Architecture + Urbanism recommends "Circuler: Quand nos mouvements façonnent la ville"

From 4 April - 26 August the Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris will be hosting an exhibition entitled Circuler: Quand nos mouvements façonnent la ville curated by Jean-Marie Duthilleul. The exhibition is divided into 12 sequences and traces the concept of urban space, as evolving from the earliest times into the near future. The last sequences will present projects realized since the 1980’s, current forward-looking reflection and the cities that are outlined, as well as new behavior of man in movement.



Featuring in the exhibition will be this film about Rafael Moneo's Atocha Station in Madrid which was made by msa graduate Sam Chisholm