
Sin lugar 1968-2008”, Ramon Faura Coll, Santi Ibarra, Antonio Pizza eds (Barcelona: Arts Ideas y proyectos en Cataluña a partir de los años setenta, in “Arquitecturas HPA republishes in english and italian, the original text: Antonio Pizza, Contracultura y procesos de normalización. These were moments of a great and problematic opening up: the prospect of an essentialĬhange in the whole spectrum of ways of living imposed a redefinition of design objectives,Īnd a productive ‘fusion of the arts’ seemed to point unequivocally to new roads forward. Ideal blueprint for The City in Space (1968).Ĭontemporary experiences were thus intended as superior models of prefiguration of a ‘A possible “Barcelona School”’ was being mooted, R. In the local context, it is symptomatic that in the same period in which the emergence of Reflection that took place in this country in those years. In Catalonia), where this absence is one of the distinctive features of the architectural In fact, this ramified attitude of protest implicit in many contemporary initiatives in EuropeĪnd the rest of the world only tangentially affected the profession in Spain (and still less Tectonic conventions, traditional structural systems and stereotyped languages. Legitimacy seemed to attain its greatest volatility, forcing to the limits dimensional scales, Throughout the nineteen-sixties, on the front line of the European architecturalĪvant-gardes an accumulation of experiences that sought to leap the rigid barriers of disciplinary Literature, arts and criticism in the modern city (Milan 2017) Recent publication, in Italian: Paris and Baudelaire. Twentieth centuries, with the “modern city” as the central theme of his reflections.

He deals with the interrelations between arts and architecture in the nineteenth and He directs a course on “Architecture and Cinema” (ETSAB), now in its eighthĮdition. Antonio Pizza is a professor of “Historia del Arte y de la Arquitectura” at the ETSAB inīarcelona.
