José Antonio Coderch
2008
José Antonio Coderch
Biographies
Armesto, Antonio
Antonio Armesto Aira is an architect and senior lecturer for the Department of Architectural Projects at the UPC, Barcelona. He has published numerous books and essays on architecture. He was a student of Coderch, whose work he has studied and disseminated in publications and conferences.
Biographies
Diez, Rafael
Rafael Díez Barreñada is an architect and associate professor for the Department of Architectural Projects at the UPC, Barcelona. He has published several books on Coderch, as well as other publications on architecture.
This monographic study is illustrated with those works by José Antonio Coderch (1913-1984) which condense his essential concerns about utensils and inhabited space. This selection shows that the objects he defined are conceptually inseparable from his architecture. Indeed they are crucial elements for describing a pragmatic universe, thus containing the imaginative substratum of his technical and artistic activity.
All of them are related to heat and light –from fire or the sun–, both in their physical and thermodynamic sense and in their archetypical sense, and linked to the anthropological phenomenon of habitation. These objects are, then, joined to each other and to his architecture by a fascinating magical, mysterious analogical relation.
ISBN: 978-84-932053-4-8
antonio-armesto, rafael-diez – 2008
Spanish / English
Hardcover, 28.6 x 24 cm / 11.154″ x 9.36″
336 pp