Carme Pinós: an Architecture of Overlay
Ana Maria Torres
New York, The Monacelli Press, 2003
Pages: 200
Language: English
Cover: Softcover
ISBN: 1-58093-124-3
Texts
Rafael Moneo, Ana Maria Torres, Carme Pinós
Description
Lyrical and evocative in both concept and form, the work of Catalan architect Carme Pinós is notable for its uncompromising embodiment of the physical, historic, and metaphoric qualities of its sites. Pinós explores the landscape personally, drawing from it a vocabulary of forms —lines, planes, curves, arches, containers— and an often geometric grammar of assembly. Her materials —earth, concrete, steel, wood— are deployed with sensivity to the exigencies of structure, uniting in compositions that are at once delicate and aesthetically dominant. First in collaboration with Enric Miralles and since 1991 as principal of her own firm, Pinós has developed an architecture of eloquence and strength that is attentive to the identity of the place and to the experience of the individual visitor or inhabitant.
A comprehensive presentation of the architect’s oeuvre, Carme Pinós: An Architecture of Overlay features twenty-one projects, built and unbuilt, in photographs, models, and Pinós’s uniquely intricate drawings. Among the designs are the enormous JVC Cultural & Business Center and the puerto de Hierro office building, both in Guadalajara, Mexico; La Serra High School in Lérida; a waterfront promenade in Havana; single-family and community housing; and numerous sports and recreational facilities throughout Spain. Contemplative yet cutting-edges considerations of the dualities inherent in architecture —nature and culture, history and modernity, standardization and variety, intellect and emotion, reason and intuition, time and timelessness— these works emphasize in equal degrees the formal and the functional, the natural and the human-made.
Contents
Foreword– Rafael Moneo
Carme Pinós: Overlay – Ana Maria Torres
Cube Office Tower. Guadalajara, Mexico.
Business Center. Hameln-Pyrmont, Germany.
Social Housing in Nazaret. Valencia, Spain.
Footbridge. Petrer, Spain.
Sport Center. Punta Umbría, Spain.
Sand Dune Park. Matalascañas, Spain.
Waterfront and Urban Intervention. Havana, Cuba.
Beti Boop Stadium for Real Betis Balompié. Seville, Spain.
JVC Fairground in El Bajío. Guadalajara, Mexico.
Ses Estacions Park. Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Recreational Center. Morella, Spain.
Juan Aparicio Waterfront. Torrevieja, Spain.
Bullring and Leisure Center. Móstoles, Spain.
Sports Center and Outdoor Pool. Mouans-Sartoux, France.
Two Houses in Roses. Roses, Spain.
Cultural Center. Benidorm, Spain.
Leisure Center. Caldas de Reis, Spain.
Formentor Hotel Extension. Pollensa, Spain.
Soren Residence. La Massana, Andorra.
Son Hugo Swimming Pool. Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
La Serra High School. Mollerussa, Spain.
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