REV - RA. Revista de Arquitectura - Vol. 21
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- Oteiza y Oíza: el espacio expositivo como percepción temporal(Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra, 2019) Zaparaín, F. (Fernando); Llamazares, P. (Pablo); Ramos, J. (Jorge)There are not many examples in the architectural panorama of museums built to house the visual artwork of a single artist. Even less when the artist actively collaborates in the architectural conception of the space that should receive his legacy. This research establishes a relational reading to understand the connections between the way in which Jorge Oteiza (1908-2003) proposes that his sculptures should be exhibited, exemplified in the exhibition montage suggested for his participation in the IV São Paulo Modern Art Biennial in 1957, and the project for the Foundation and Museum in Alzuza, Navarra, the work of his good friend Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza (1918-2000). In both cases, the use of time as an instrument for controlling perception will be essential to achieve greater coherence between the museum space and the displayed work.
- Apuntes sobre el paso de medio siglo (y algunas exposiciones)(Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra, 2019) Mardones, P. (Patricio)An exhibition entitled ‘Structures Gonflables’ was held from the first to the thirty-first March 1968 at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris’s (at the time) new ARC (Animation, Recherche, Confrontation) Division . A few weeks after the detonation of the social movements that turned the streets of Paris into a platform for debate and confrontation, the multidisciplinary community ‘Utopie’, whose members were architects Jean Aubert, Jean-Paul Jungermann and Paul Stinco, together with Isabelle Auricoste, Catherine Cot, René Loureau and sociologists Jean Baudrillard and Hubert Tonka, curated an exhibition commissioned from Pierre Gaudibert.
- Construir un 'archivo' 856: Exposiciones de arquitectura en Barcelona(Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra, 2019) Ortigosa, N. (Nuria)Building an “archive” of this kind involves compiling all the architecture exhibitions ever held in Barcelona throughout its history. This compilation or archive focuses on what has been seen and less on how, on the content rather than the medium, on the abstract behind the display, without overlooking the moments when both have an intentional relationship. This “archive” is approached from the perspective of the proactive architecture project, as an active and useful resource and not from a historical and conservationist perspective.
- La definición del icono urbano y global. Estrategias públicoprivadas para la regeneración del museo "Palazzo della Civiltà italiana" - Roma(Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra, 2019) Moral-Andrés, F. (Fernando)The role that historically played certain institutions as effective creators of the cultural city presents a new variant with the configuration of important international business conglomerates. These groups, capable of articulating different socio-economic structures, also produce an architectural reality linked to their needs, from a strictly functional horizon or as representative iconic values. The case of the Palazzo de la Civiltà Italiana, projected by Giovanni Guerrini, Ernesto Lapadula and Mario Romano, and started in 1938, is revealing of this contemporary business paradigm. It was conceived as the emblematic museum of the failed Universal Exposition of Rome, 1942 and has been in a continuous process of programmatic redefinition since those years that saw it stand up and that augured a destination for it as Museo della Civiltà. Different cultural approaches have been filling it but in no case with a relevant repercussion neither for its immediate environment nor for the effective construction of the public city. Currently, after the agreement reached in 2013 between the management company of the property and the FENDI house, its exhibition spaces have been reduced significantly, but it has a new program that has regenerated it as a headquarters building program and as a global icon.
- "… let us take an excursion around the world!". Monumento y copia como práctica curatorial de las Exposiciones Internacionales y sus museos de colecciones, 1854-1929(Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra, 2019) García-Estévez, C.B. (Carolina B.)In December 2018, the Victoria & Albert Museum reopened Cast Court after a period of intensive rehabilitation. Its collection of plaster casts of the principal monuments and works of art is one of the very few that is still held in the original place for which they were designed. The impact of this encyclopaedic, exhaustive and universal collection on visitors to what was then London’s South Kensington Museum was summarized as “an excursion around the world”, in a spirit close to that which lit up the Great Exhibition of 1851. Originally, the dual function of museums as teaching workshops and catalysts of the general public’s critical culture placed collections of full-scale architectural reproductions in the ambiguous terrain between the academy and the market. Architecture in the museums took on board the risks of defining the value of the copy, its pedagogic purpose and its circulation as manifesto. This article concentrates on two reproductions of Spain’s architectural heritage that allow us to reconstruct this journey: from the Court of the Alhambra to the Pórtico de la Gloria.
- The Afterlife of an Exhibition: John Hejduk and the "Education of an Architect"(Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra, 2019) Geiser, R. (Reto)While the status of the architectural exhibition has recently received renewed attention in the museum world as a specific set of practices different from other forms of curation and display, less attention has been paid among architects to the specificities of the exhibition and its related formats as vehicles for reshaping public understanding of architecture. Beyond the exhibition as an opportunity to expose a broader audience to architecture, museums and galleries have been important platforms for the discussion, exploration, and dissemination of fundamental disciplinary ambitions, particularly also through their exponentially growing publications programs. This essay focuses on a small, and often overseen exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Staged by the architect John Hejduk, exhibition number 984 Education of an Architect (1971) showcased student work from the Cooper Union. While the impact of this exhibition consisting of fourteen models and a selection of drawings and collages, was mostly limited to a local audience, the book published in parallel would prove to become a key reference for architectural educators around the world. Education of an Architect: A Point of View (1971) is the origin for a number of publications that focus on pedagogical concepts, and as such, it fueled the discussion and reassessment of how we teach foundational courses in architectural design.
- "El museo de la inocencia". La construcción de un relato(Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra, 2019) Santolaria, A.I. (Ana Isabel); Ramos, J. (Jaime)IT The Museum of Innocence is a novel and a museum created by Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk that tells the story of two young lovers in Istanbul through the objects of everyday life. The Museum of Innocence project is a collection of objects arranged in the form of a novel and displayed in a museum, calling attention to the importance of the narrative both in the building of the collection and in endowing the museum with spatial form. It is a tale of passion, told through the objects that trigger the characters’ memories in different places in the city. For this reason, it is also the story of a time and a city. In particular, it is a reflection on the importance of our houses, of the people who live in them, their objects and their stories, and how they can be turned into museums.
- Architecture for Museums(Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra, 2019) Alonso, P.I. (Pedro Ignacio)
- ¿Un museo en la luna? The Moon Museum, espacio expositivo en el límite(Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra, 2019) Guridi, R. (Rafael)The idea of a ‘museum’ on the moon seems to be taken from a B-movie or a pulp science fiction magazine, although the surprising thing is that it actually is a reality, of sorts. Just how a miniature artwork by six of the most important American artists of the 1960s came to be surreptitiously etched onto a small ceramic wafer the size of a SIM card attached to one of the legs of the lunar module of the Apollo 12 mission and secretly dispatched to the moon in November 1969 (the second manned mission), has all the ingredients of a mystery film and questions the very notion of what a museum is, representing as well one of the most exciting adventures in the history of 20th Century art, embodying the spirit of a decade of optimism and faith in the redemptive power of technology.
- Arquitectura expuesta. Tránsitos artísticos de la representación fotográfica de la arquitectura(Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra, 2019) Bergera, I. (Iñaki); Jerez, E. (Enrique)If we can state that certain architectural production currently finds its origin and explicit accommodation in the field of the exhibition, it is even more logical -considering the unavoidable visual culture- to assert that the images of architecture prevail autonomously over the architecture they represent, becoming independent of the strictly disciplinary and exhibited illuminated in the aura of the artistic on the walls of a museum. To explore this argument in line with the subject from the current Ra’s issue, we will review eight exhibitions, and their corresponding catalogues, held in different museums and art galleries from 1982 to 2018, and focused on exploring architectural photographic representation and its translations to and from artistic practices. We aim not just to make an exhaustive review of this reality, but to extract from its analysis a contemporary critical reading of its potentialities and interpretations.