Name: Sunlight Houses
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Author: Octavio Mestre
ISBN: 9788496823723

Type

Physical Book

Author

Octavio Mestre

Publisher

Monsa

Topic

arquitectura, diseño y tendencias - diseño arquite

Year

2010

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

ISBN

8496823725

ISBN13

9788496823723

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "Sunlight Houses "

La Escuela de Arquitectura de Montpellier (Francia), bajo la dirección de Nicolas Crégut, dedicó un monográfico al estudio de nuestras viviendas unifamiliares, un curso al que denominamos Sunlight Houses y que hoy da origen a este libro. El titulo hacía referencia a aquel otro libro de Le Corbusier (Cuando las catedrales eran blancas) y al capítulo de Tom Wolfe de ¿Quién teme a la Bauhaus feroz? en el que describe la llegada de los arquitectos modernos de Centroeuropa a la América de los años 40, como la llegada de Los dioses blancos, apostando por un color que es esencia de la luz y que hoy se ve amenazado por quienes, desde la administración, prefieren vindicar los colores tierra, en aras a integrar las arquitecturas en un cierto contexto neo rural.

Octavio Mestre

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Octavio Mestre is a Spanish architect who graduated with honors from the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB). After receiving various scholarships in European countries, he served as a professor in the Department of Theory and Composition at ETSAB from 1983 to 1988, and worked in the Planning Services of the Barcelona City Council from 1987 to 1990. In 1990, he founded his own studio, OMA Octavio Mestre Architects.

Among his notable projects is the HLM housing block in Toulouse, France, which won the National Award for Social Housing in 1993. Additionally, he has carried out the comprehensive renovation of the L’illa Diagonal Shopping Center and the Olivé Gumà Clinic in Barcelona. Recently, his studio has completed the headquarters of Magic Box in Sant Cugat del Vallès, selected by the ArchDaily platform as "Building of the Year" globally.

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