sariak | El FAD premia un instituto de la periferia de Alicante

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El FAD premia un instituto de la periferia de Alicante
En interiorismo gana Ferrater con su paseo de Benidorm
Catalina Serra | El País, 2010-10-08

El fallo lo define como "un oasis" en un territorio "ultrajado" por los excesos desarrollistas que asolan numerosas periferias urbanas españolas. El jurado del premio FAD de arquitectura, que ha presidido Jordi Garcés, otorgó ayer el galardón en la categoría de arquitectura al IES Rafal, en Alicante, del grupo Aranea, un estudio multidisciplinar dirigido por el arquitecto Francisco Leiva y la paisajista María García. Construido en hormigón y de aspecto exterior duro, el edificio se repliega hacia el interior configurando varios patios y logrando, según Garcés, responder brillantemente con una "complejidad muy elaborada a los muchos requerimientos del proyecto". Aunque el premio se otorgó por consenso, hasta el último momento estuvo en liza con otra obra también muy enraizada en el paisaje, el tenue círculo que conforma el centro deportivo del embalse Gabriel y Galán de Cáceres, de José María Sánchez, al que el jurado otorgó finalmente una mención.

book | Material-immaterial : the new work of Kengo Kuma

Material-immaterial : the new work of Kengo Kuma / Botond Bognar.
New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2009.
255 p. : il.
ISBN 9781568987798*
Materias:
Kuma, Kengo, 1954.
Arquitectura - Siglo XXI - Japón.
Fachadas.
Revestimientos.
Biblioteca A-72 KUMA MAT

In our 2005 monograph "Kengo Kuma: Selected Works", celebrated architect Kengo Kuma boldly declared that his ultimate aim was to "erase architecture" so that his buildings became one with their surroundings. In recent years he has pursued this goal by focusing primarily on imaginative and unexpected use of materials, creating hypnotizing surfaces that evoke subtle visual sensations by highlighting their materiality. Only by pushing a material to the limits of its capabilities does Kuma believe their true nature can be revealed. Ingenious and yet deceptively simple, this realization represented a major turning point in his desire to give his architecture a presence beyond the merely eye-catching or sculptural.

"Material Immaterial: The New Work of Kengo Kuma" presents more than thirty of the architect's recent works, including high-profile commissions such as the Suntory Museum in Tokyo and the Ondo Civic Center in Kure; the exquisite Lotus House in Zushi; large-scale urban developments like Sanlitun Village South in Beijing; as well as tea pavilions and installations that have exhibited in the United States, England, Italy, South Korea, China, Germany, and France, many of them never before published. The book also includes an extended essay on the evolution of the architect's work, from the founding of Kengo Kuma and Associates in 1990 to the present. An accompanying exhibit—the first retrospective of the architect's work, also titled Material Immaterial—displayed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in late 2008 and will travel to locales around the world over the next two years.

Botond Bognar is the author of numerous books on contemporary Japanese architecture, including "Kengo Kuma: Selected Works". He is currently a professor of architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.