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Ábalos and Herreros

Selected by Kersten Geers and David Van Severen, Juan José Castellón González, Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu, with an interpretation in photographs by Stefano Graziani

Distributed for Park Books

AP 164

Ábalos and Herreros

Selected by Kersten Geers and David Van Severen, Juan José Castellón González, Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu, with an interpretation in photographs by Stefano Graziani
Iñaki Ábalos and Juan Herreros established the renowned architec­tural firm Ábalos & Herreros in Madrid in 1984. At the time, fol­lowing the end of the Franco regime, architects were valued more for their technical ability than for their contributions to theoretical research. In this context, Ábalos and Herreros’s melding of design with a range of publications and curatorial projects presented a remarkable challenge to assumptions about the role of an architect.

In 2012, the Canadian Centre for Architecture obtained the Ábalos & Herreros archive, which contains documents related to more than 160 projects. The material comprises sketches, slides, models, col­lages, and drawings. The archive presents a compelling opportunity to reconstruct Ábalos and Herreros’s planning and design process. Each of the book’s three contributors—two of whom worked with Ábalos and Herreros—approaches the archive with specific questions, and their essays explore topics including the architects’ fascination with industrial architecture, their capacity to construct a hybrid materiality without recourse to building technology as language, and their innova­tive visions for landscape architecture.

While many have written about the work of Ábalos and Herreros, previous books have been based mainly on their built projects and on­going research. Ábalos & Herreros Selected by Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen, Juan José Castellón and SO–IL is the first book to draw on the firm’s archive to offer a new take on this important architectural practice.

208 pages | 160 color plates, 40 halftones | 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 | © 2016

Architecture: European Architecture


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Table of Contents

Iñaki Ábalos and Juan Herreros
A Conversation
 
Giovanna Borasi
Out of the Box: Ábalos&Herreros
 
Stefano Graziani
Proofs of Relevance
 
Kersten Geers and David Van Severen
November 2014
Industrial Architecture
March 2015
 
Juan José Castellón González
October 2014
Jai Tech
May 2015
 
Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu
October 2014
Landscapes of the Hyperreal
July 2015
 
Iñaki Ábalos
September 2015
 
Juan Herreros
September 2015
 
Archive description and list of projects
 
 

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