ivorypress<\/a>. His series of manipulated photographs (Favelas, Halong, Dauphin Islands, Busan, Venice*) are especially well-known in the world of architecture for their critical focus on the contemporary city and today\u2019s urban planning, incapable of resolving problems beyond the immediacy of expropriation, demolition or short-term patching-up. His photomontages are personal proposals for the contemporary city that present alternative ways of making a city, taking advantage of what is already there and also with actions similar to Kenneth Frampton\u2019s \u201ccritical regionalism\u201d. [[FRAMPTON, Kenneth. \u201cHacia un regionalismo cr\u00edtico: Seis puntos para una arquitectura de resistencia\u201d en La Posmodernidad, ed. Hal Foster (Barcelona: Kair\u00f3s, 1985)]]<\/p>\nAlthough one can\u2019t deny that his research into certain latent urban situations is interesting, nor that the artistic and technical quality (the light and colour in his images are meticulously impeccable), his determination to go almost too far (further than an actual architect would go) in his definition of architectural and urban proposals makes them seem slightly naive, superficial and contradictory with respect to the virtues that he seems to want to expound in principle, clouding the final message of the work. The informality and unpredictability of spontaneous urban settlements seem to become domesticated and programmed, the endeavour being to stylise the material precariousness through capricious formal solutions and supposedly \u201cglamorous\u201d materials which seem to demand an aesthetic of \u201cgood taste\u201d (in the most conventional sense of the word) and a process of friendly gentrification, but gentrification nonetheless. Equally his hyperrealist style, a mix of commercial property and video-game simulator, currently the dominant trend in the aesthetics of the most competitive world of architecture (tenders, selling projects to clients, presentations) suffers from a lack of irony that one misses. <\/p>\n
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That said it is a pleasure to see the latest project by Dionisio Gonz\u00e1lez. \u201cLe Corbusier. The Last Project\u201d is a spectacular photographic reconstruction of twenty \u201cunborn\u201d projects by Le Corbusier and it is therefore one shows off his artistic capacity for representation and interpretation, closer to Piranesi\u2019s Romanticism and further from any more risky architectural pretensions. The \u201cstaging\u201d (which could be seen at the last ARCO* fair) recovers the essence of the most spectacular installations such as Eleg\u00eda* (2008) and Transfigured Sch\u00f6enberg* and, even though Le Corbusier was \u201cprobably the 20th century architect to have been written about most\u201d [[COLOMINA, Beatriz. Privacidad Y Publicidad: La Arquitectura Moderna Como Medio De Comunicaci\u00f3n De Masas. Hortal, Isabel (trad.). Murcia: Cendeac, 2010]]. and his documentary collection is definitely the biggest in the history of architecture, his work can never be exhibited too much and presented to more amateur audiences who don\u2019t have the time or the inclination to research the works of this famous architect and relate better to systems of 3D representation than to classic technical plans, collages and drawings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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