Arquitectura


JOSEP BAYÓ FONT, CONTRATISTA DE GAUDÍ
El gener de 1970 es va poder enregistrar, en un document excepcional, una conversa amb Josep Bayó i Font en què aquest explicava, fil per randa, com va bastir la Casa Batlló, la Pedrera i el Primer Misteri de Glòria del camí de la Santa Cova de Montserrat, i parlava dels industrials i els artesans que hi intervingueren. L'enregistrament es conserva a la Reial Càtedra Gaudí, raó per la qual sempre serà possible confirmar el que es publica en aquesta obra. Així es perfila un xic més la persona i l'entorn de Gaudí, que Josep Bayó tingué ocasió de conèixer, d'estimar i d'aprendre'n els arcans de la seva arquitectura prodigiosa.

RUINS OF ANCIENT ROME : THE DRAWINGS OF FRENCH ARCHITECTS WHO WON THE PRIX DE ROME , 1786-1924
Traditionally, a critical component of the education of any architect was to draw the ruins of ancient Rome, reconstructing either from ancient sources or, more often, pure fantasy, what the original structures must have looked like. From this training emerged generations of architects imbued with the aesthetic ideals that would form the Neoclassical and Beaux-Arts building styles. In this magnificently printed volume are reproduced some of the most extraordinarily handsome drawings of the ruins of ancient Rome made by French "Prix de Rome" architects from 1786 through 1924 Accompanied by text that explains how the Prix de Rome was awarded and the significance of the prize in the history of architecture, as well as how the study of ancient models formed the basis for nineteenth- and early twentieth-century architectural styles, these drawings provide an invaluable understanding of how the modern imagination recorded and transformed ancient fragments into a modern architectural idiom.

EL ARQUITECTO GALLEGO DOMINGO ANTONIO LOIS MONTEAGUDO (1723-1786) Y SU «LIBRO DE BARIOS ADORNOS»
La interesante figura de este arquitecto gallego no ha sido apreciada en su auténtico valor, quizá oscurecida la fama de Lois por la de los grandes genios arquitectónicos que florecieron en su tiempo; es, sin duda, la labor realizada por él de calidad superior a la de muchos arquitectos contemporáneos suyos. En este libro el autor avanza en el estudio biográfico y la obra realizada por Lois Monteagudo, y a través de los muchos proyectos que va estudiando se valora la importancia de la figura de este arquitecto gallego, que forma parte de los mejores de su tiempo, aunque las circunstancias le impidieron realizar edificios que estaba dotado para concebir. En facsímil se recoge en este estudio el precioso libro de "Adornos", que Lois Monteagudo dejó inédito.

THE ARCHITECTURE AND THE GARDENS OF THE SAN DIEGO EXPOSITION
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