The Miralles Projection: Thinking and Representation in the Architecture of Enric Miralles

It is impossible to dissociate the evolution of Enric Miralles' architecture from the development of his own system of representation. Founded on an initial position inherited from his training at the Barcelona School of Architecture and his practice at the office of Viaplana-Pi n, where he acquired a liking for precision in drawing and a graphic style based exclusively on lines of the same thickness, Miralles soon developed a method defined by a customised use of orthographic projections, connected to a fragmented conception of the architectural plan and space itself. The Miralles Projection explains both the origin and evolution of Miralles' system of representation, from his time as an architecture student and collaborator at Viaplana-Pi n to the latest projects he designed with Benedetta Tagliabue, including the important period with Carme Pin s. With a curated selection of previously unpublished drawings, it demonstrates on a fundamental level how the evolution of his architecture ran parallel to that of representation, thus illustrating their indissolubility and mutual interdependence.

Author: Javier Fernández Contreras
Publisher: Applied Research & Design
Published: 09/22/2020
Pages: 220
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.10lbs
Size: 10.50h x 8.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781943532674

About the Author
Contreras, Javier Fernández: - "Javier Fernández Contreras is a Spanish architect, critic and dean of the Department of Interior Architecture at HEAD-Genève, Switzerland. He studied architecture at the Madrid School of Architecture - ETSAM (Master, 2006; PhD, 2013). In 2015 Contreras was finalist in the 10th arquia/tesis competition with the PhD thesis The Miralles Projection: Thinking and Representation in the Architecture of Enric Miralles."