CUADERNO DE NOTAS
CUADERNO DE NOTAS 1 (1993)
SUMMARY OF DATS. MODERNS ARCHITECTURES
Origens.
News materials.
College of Chicago.
Movements of reform of the arts.
Previous experiences in 1914.
Vanguards.
Modern Movement.
Urbanism and city in the modern movement.
Rafael García
THE "DEUTSCHER WERKBUND".
TECHNIQUE AND CULTURE
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The german debate in the "Werkbund" across the texts
José Manuel García Roig
PICTORESQUE
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Miguel Ángel Aníbarro
ABOUT TO SKETCH GARDENS BETWEEN THE CHINESES
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William Chambers
CUADERNO DE NOTAS 2 (1994)
BAUHAUS (1919-1933). DATS
Rafael García, José Manuel García Roig
VOLUME AND TRANSPARENCY.
AEG, FAGUS, BAUHAUS
Evolution of subjet of the corner
Rafael García
PETER BEHRENS 1868-1940
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Vittorio Gregotti
SCHROEDER´S HOUSE
Theodor Brown
TWO LESSONS OF ARCHITECTURE
In the road to bourgeois architecture.
Form and Theory in the architecture of XVIII century
Julius Posener
PINTORESQUE IN ARCHITECTURE
Nicolaus Pevsner
LANDSCAPE, MODEL OF GARDEN
Miguel Ángel Aníbarro
CUADERNO DE NOTAS 3 (1995)
HOLLAND, NEW OBJETIVITY
Summary of dats
Rafael García
THREE DUIKER´S ARTICLES
Berlage and the new objetivity.
Manifest of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Account of the book Bouwen of Van Loghem.
FROM RESIDENTIAL BLOCK TO LINEAL BLOCK
The proposal of dwelings of Oud
Rafael García
THE "DEUTSCHER WERKBUND"
Essential biography.
Dats and events.
The foundation of the Deutsche Werkbund,
October 6 1907.
Muthesius: Biography dats and fundamental texts.
José Manuel García Roig, Peter Bruckmann
THE ARCHITECTURE AND THE IRON
Julius Posener
PINTORESQUE: FROM GARDEN TO THE ARCHITECTURE
Miguel Ángel Aníbarro
CUADERNO DE NOTAS 4 (1996)
ARCHITECTURE AND "ARQUEOLOGISMO"
Fernando Vela Cossío
RESTORATION
(From "Diccionario Razonado de Arquitectura")
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
TWO ARTICLES OF RIETVELD
Understanding.
New "Funcionalismo" in Architecture
BALANCE AND ECONOMY
Buildings of the Duiker´s second stage
Rafael García
THE "DEUTSCHER WERKBUND": 1907-1914
Julius Posener
THE LANDSCAPE IN THE MODERN CITY
Miguel Ángel Aníbarro
CUADERNO DE NOTAS 5 (1997)
EGYPTIAN ART AND ORIENTAL ARCHITECTURE
Fernando Vela Cossío
THE COMMON PLAN OF AMSTERDAM. A.U.P (I)
Helma Hellinga
GERRIT RIETVELD
Houses after of Schroeder
Rafael García
GESAMTKUNSTWERK´S CONCEPT
Gabriele Bryant
BERLIN, ART AND POLITICAL IN THE WEIMAR´S TIME
Berlin, the Weimar´s time. The art how consequence of a social conflict. Architecture.
José Manuel García Roig, Lionel Richards
ENGLISH MEDIEVAL MODEL
The mansion of 16th Century
Manuel de Prada
CUADERNO DE NOTAS 6 (1998)
THE CORNERS IN THE ARCHITECTURE
Ramón de la Mata Gorostizaga
THE COMMON PLAN OF AMSTERDAM. A.U.P (II)
Helma Hellinga
FUNCIONALISMO IN EVOLUTION
Gooiland hotel and buildings of the last stage of Duiker
Rafael García
THEO VAN DOESBURG AND CORNELIS VAN EESTEREN
Three proyects for the exhibition of the L´effort Modern Gallery of Paris
María Teresa Escaño Rodríguez
BERLIN OF STONE - GREEN BERLIN
Julius Posener
THE FUNCTIONAL MODEL AND THE FREE ENGLISH ARCHITECTURE
Manuel de Prada
CUADERNO DE NOTAS 7 (1999)
THE MASS HOUSING OF THE MODERN MOVEMENT
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Auke van der Woude
Presentation: Rafael García
The text is one of few works that offer a panoramic compilation of modern mass housing during the interwar period. From the
standpoint of a critical revision of the CIAM phenomenon, it analyzes its real repercussions on the housing programs and policies of different European countries.
Although the material gathered here it is on the wole common knowledge to specialists, it has heretofore not been published in such an accessible form.
(Pags.3-54)
THE "POBLADOS DIRIGIDOS" OF MADRID
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Ana M. Esteban
Presentation: Rafael García
The "Poblados Dirigidos", an operation undertaken in Madrid durind the fifties to urbanize slum settlements, was an unprecedented experience within Spain´s postwar architectural scene
The involvement in the program of some of our finest architects, together with that of residents buildin their own homes, gave this large-scale proyect its unique character.
The following essay is a tour of these districts, areas where modernity emerged as a new way of solving problem of peripheral slum settlements.
(Pags.55-80)
MART STAM. FACTS FOR A CENTENARY
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Rafael García
On the occasion of the hundredth year since the birth of the Dutch architect Mart Stam, a compilation of biographic data has been published, as well a a bibliography that includes a virtually complete list of his writings.
Both are based on the most important works on Mart Stam thas have so far been carried out, and can be considered an Spanish contribution to the centenary, in view of the near inexistence here of sufficiently important research on his figure.
(Pags.81-96)
UTHOPIAN THOUGHT, GERMANNESS AND ARCHITECTURE
KARL ERNST OSTHAUS AND BRUNO TAUT
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J. Manuel García Roig
A critical commentary and two texts of B.Taut and K.E.Osthaus
To wrap up his cultural program, in 1919 Osthaus conceived the construction of a school. Taut in turn drew up a proyect with buildings accommodating classrooms, a museum, structures from which to supply the school community, and a glass tower -the "prayer house"- in the middle of it all.
Besides a critique on its ideological context, we have printed separate texts concerning the proyect, one by Taut and the other by Osthaus.
(Pags.97-110)
"RITES OF PASSAGE": A REVISION OF THE FUNCTIONAL MODEL
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Manuel de Prada
This study endeavors to explain why some English houses, old and new alike, broke their access axes, defying all functional logic: a significant phenomenon when related to the clashes between the different models and orders of England´s residential architecture.
Such collisions came about when builders tried to reconciled the irregularity of traditional models (the medieval manor house and the picturesque castles and cotteges whqt werw so inspiring to John Nash) with the order and regularity of Italian models.
(Pags.111-129)
NEW BRUTALISM: AN APPROACH AND ONE BIBLIOGRAPHY
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María Teresa Valcarce
Ideas pertaining to New Brutalism, developed in England during the first half of the fifties, formed the groundwork of part of the architecture that was carried out from then on to the mid-sixties.
This paper tries to sort out the factors that led to the definition and dissemination of these ideas, all the way to their publication in Reyner Banham´s The New Brutalism, which was to serve as the movement´s main reference. .
The text printed here, actually only the first part of a longer article, is followed by an updated bibliography on the theme.
(Págs.130-)
ENGLISH SUMMARY
Translation: Gina Cariño
CUADERNO DE NOTAS 8 (2001)
ESSAY ON DE 8 EN OPBOUW
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Manfred Bock
Presentation: Rafael García
Translation to the Spanish of an essay Manfred Bock wrote for the facsimile edition of the Dutch architectural journal De 8 en Opbouw.
An in-depth trip through the major periods and events having to do with its origins and development, as well as with its editorial consequences or repercussions,
the text is complemented by a selection of cover and inside illustrations of the publication´s twelve years of life.
(Pags.3-62)
DUDOK CON PATIO:
THE NETHERLANDS HOUSE OF THE CITÉ UNIVERSITAIRE IN PARIS AND OTHER MAJOR WORKS
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Rafael García
In this analysis of The Netherlands House, two other Dudok designs of the same period - namely the Town Hall and North Cemetery of Hilversum - serve as references
sharing a single notion of centrality that is rather exceptional in the architect´s oeuvre. The Netherlands House is also an important point of inflection toward
Dudok´s adopting international modern language of the late thirties.
(Pags.63-80)
HILVERSUM AND THE NOORDBEGRAAFPLAATS:
AN URBAN MODEL FOR FUNERARY SPACE
Marta García Carbonero
Presentation: Rafael García
Dudok´s cemetery for Hilversum is unique in that it is conceived in close relation to the overall urban plan, becoming a key reference element and the core of a larger pinwheel composition.
Using the analogy of a vegetal city, it can be understood to synthesize the 19th century traditions of a monumental graveyard and a cemetery park.
(Pags.81-96)
BRUNO TAUT AND JAPAN
(with a text by Bruno Taut)
J. Manuel García Roig
The opening essay narrates the life of Bruno Taut from his quick leave of Germany to his voyage to and stint in Japan.
There he would work intensely as writer,industrial designer and architect. In the piece by him, translated to the Spanish,
Bruno Taut compares the monumental town of Nikko to the serene beauty of Katsura.
(Pags.97-112)
THE HERTFORDSHIRE SCHOOLS
AN ART OF TEAMWORK BUILDING?
Roberto Osuna Redondo
This article describes the circumstances that in the wake of World War II gave rise to the establishment, in England´s Hertfordshire county, of a programme for the development of schools - one which put special emphasis on heretofore unusual aspects
of projects, such as teamwork and collaboration between professionals and end-users.
(Pags.113-128)
NEW BRUTALISM, A CONTINUATION
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María Teresa Valcarce
Part 2 of an article published in our previous issue. Here it continues to unthread the ideas and works that nourished the conception and development of New Brutalism. An accurate documentation of the facts accompanies a view of architecture from
the perspective of this current.
(Pags.129-)
ENGLISH SUMMARY
Translationn: Gina Cariño
CUADERNO DE NOTAS 9 (2002)
NIEUWE BOUWEN´S INNER SPACE
Elinoor Bergvelt (ed.)
Presentation: Rafael García
Although much headway was made within the Nieuwe Bouwen in furniture and interior fittings, as a specific theme these have hardly been addressed. Yet the contribution of Dutch designers and architects in this field has been internationally acclaimed since the twenties. This article analyzes the principal experiments in the floor plan and interior design of modern mass housing in the Netherlands.
(Pags.3-30)
WENDINGEN
ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHITECTS
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Rafael García
The Dutch magazine Wendingen was traditionally considered the principal voice of the Amsterdam school. However, an analysis of its contents reveals that the part dedicated to architecture presented a wider range of currents and architects. This article presents that panorama with detailed information of its elements.
(Pags.31-56)
COMPOSING IN VACUO:
NOTES ABOUT CONFIGURATION OF VOID IN ART AND ARCHITECTURE
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Manuel de Prada
Some way or another, the configuration of the void has a bearing on all artistic manifestations, including the less material ones like music. Since the early years of the 20th century, many artists have managed to activate the void and shape with it significant forms that are able to transcend the traditional solid-hollow and interior-exterior dichotomies. After the twenties, many began to explain what they composed with voids.
(Pags.57-84)
THE ARCHITECTONIC VANGUARD OF SOCIALIST REALISM:
ARKIN´S REASONING POWER
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Carlos Flores Pazos
This article tries to draw renewed interest to the typology of the huge complex, unknown and varied in the West where it was simplistically called Stalinist architecture, but which we ought to call the avant-garde of socialist realism. The black legend that accompanies it, more out of ignorance than of reality, will die in time, and the virtues of the complex duly recognized. Certain architects of this transition period went ahead in their criticism and
work-manifestos of what decades later would be put forward by the Velasca Tower.
(Pags.85-94)
CATAGUASES:
A LITTLE CITY INSIDE BRAZIL AND ITS DWELLINGS
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Maria Marta Camisassa
The small city of Cataguases, situated in the southeast of the state of Minas Gerais, was culturally something exceptional in its area, even back at the end of the 19th century. Here, from 1940 to the early fifties, Niemeyer and other modern Brazilian architects carried out a group of interesting housing developments. Their projects were accompanied by landscaping and furnishing touches of a sometimes exclusive nature, coming together with avant-garde sculptures and other art objects.
(Pags.95-110)
ENGLISH SUMMARY
Translation: Gina Cariño
CUADERNO DE NOTAS 10 (2004)
I10 AN AVANT-GARDE MAGAZINE
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Rafael García with texts of A.Lehning
One of the most important of illustrated journals on modern culture and art was published in the Netherlands from 1927 to 1929. It brought together the most outstanding figures of the literary, social, and artistic avant-gardse. This article gives a broad panorama of the magazine's history and figures, accompanied by three texts by its founder, Arthur Muller Lehning, and a significant selection of images.
(Pags.3-52)
MAX TAUT (1884-1967)
ON THE FIGURE AND WORK OF AN UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
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José Manuel García Roig
Max Taut could be included in that broad, still unwritten chapter of architectural history that covers architects of a Modern Movement stretching from the First World War well into the sixties. In the course of that extended period Taut built an oeuvre of extraordinary quality, an oeuvre nevertheless little known of, even within the exclusively German scene. Among other things, his biography reveals a clear commitment to the reconstruction of his country and a view of its future.
(Pags.53-74)
INEVITABLE FUNCTIONALIST
DUIKER, SKETCH OF HIS LIFE AND WORK
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Rafael García
The architect Jan Duiker died, at the age of 44, early in the morning of February 23, 1935, leaving a select oeuvre of unquestionable quality with buildings like the Zonestraal hospital, the Open-Air School, the Cineac, or the Hotel Gooiland. A good number of biographical data heretofore unpublished in Spanish appears in this article, along with a perspective view of Duiker's works that amounts to an extensive presentation of his life's journey.
(Pags.75-100)
THE MEANING OF MONTAGE AND THE TECHNIQUES OF COLLAGE
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Manuel de Prada
Montage is the act of superposing or assembling different things. Montage is skillfully piecing something together so that it serves a purpose. This requires art. Not a capricious art, however, but an art that by using the author as an intermediary presents humankind with the natural order. Modern montages would try to present the fragmentary and absurd character of everyday life in the bosom of the capitalist system of production, as well as the alienated, depersonalized condition of modern man.
(Pags.101-114)
REBUILDING COVENTRY
A PIONEER EXAMPLE OF POSTWAR EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURE
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Roberto Osuna
Before the Second World War, the English city drew up plans for a thorough renovation of its center. After its 1940 bombing, these plans served as a basis for designing a pedestrian commercial zone that was a precedent of all those that would be built all over the continent in later years. The municipal architect Donald Gibson was the main author of the plan, which included the holding of a competition for the reconstruction of the cathedral, for many one of the most significant works of postwar architecture in Great Britain.
(Pags.115-130)
ENGLISH SUMMARY
Translation: Gina Cariño
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