Twenty-One Conversations with Architects by Arquitectura-G gathers more than 15 years of interviews conducted by the Barcelona practice for Apartamento, in which architects across several generations talk about houses, homes and the lives lived inside them.
About This Book
Arquitectura-G and Apartamento—a Barcelona architecture studio and a Barcelona magazine, both preoccupied with space and how it is inhabited—have been talking to each other, and to architects, since 2008. This volume brings those conversations together for the first time. The line-up spans Pritzker laureates, image-makers and close collaborators, each building a distinct universe of their own.
Edited by Moisés Puente, the book is less a record of buildings than of ways of thinking. Recurring threads—scale, ambiguity, hedonism, bathrooms, dancing, the house as a laboratory—let architects from very different times and places speak across one another, revealing how they have gone on living with the questions their work first raised.
Key Features
- 21 interviews first published in Apartamento, collected in a single volume
- Conversations with Álvaro Siza, Ricardo Bofill, Smiljan Radić, Oscar Tusquets, César Manrique, Christian Kerez, Anne Holtrop, Office KGDVS, Pezo von Ellrichshausen and more
- Includes figures such as Bernard Rudofsky, Fernando Higueras and Dante Bini alongside contemporary practices
- Edited by Moisés Puente
What You'll Discover
- How architects talk about the houses they designed for others—and the homes they made for themselves
- Candid, unguarded exchanges that sit somewhere between interview and conversation between peers
- Unexpected connections between generations, disciplines and countries
- The domestic interior as a site of experiment, pleasure and ambiguity
About the Author
Arquitectura-G is a Barcelona studio founded in 2006 by Jonathan Arnabat, Jordi Ayala-Bril, Igor Urdampilleta and Aitor Fuentes. Winner of the Mies van der Rohe Award for Emerging Architects, the practice has edited the architecture section of Apartamento since the magazine began. Moisés Puente is a Barcelona-based architect and editor.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Dimensions: 160 × 220 mm
- Pages: 416
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9788409880225
- Publisher: Apartamento
Perfect For: Architects, students and readers of Apartamento interested in residential architecture and the thinking of practitioners in their own words.