THE SPHERE AND THE LABIRYNTH
As a starting point different examples at various scales of block proposals by different architects, such as Rem Koolhaas, Hans Kollhoff, Rafael Moneo or Mario Galdensonas, will be analyzed. Aspects, such as free section and circulation of the different examples by diagrams, will be explored to understand their spatial organizations to be later applied to block proposals.
Seminar: The Sphere and the Labyrinth by Francisco Gonzalez de Canales – 26th November
Reference books
Bernard Tschumi: Manhattan transcripts, London: Academy Editions, 1994.
Rem Koolhaas: S, M, L, XL,New York: Monacelli Press, 1995
Manfredo Tafuri: Sphere and the labyrinth: avant-gardes and architecture from Piranesi to the 1970s, London: MIT Press 1990.
POLITICS OF THE BIG BLOCK 