Fco. González de Canales – Actar Publishers

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Francisco is professor in the University of Seville and the Architectural Association (AA). An active architectural critic, he has previously lectured History & Theory in the AA, England, México, Spain, and the USA, and collaborated in different architectural publications and curated various exhibitions at the Architectural Association as AACP coordinator (2008-2012), and other travelling exhibitions for Spanish institutions such as Rafael Moneo: A theoretical Reflection through practice. He has previously researched in the AA, Catholic University of Chile, UNAM in Mexico and Harvard University under different scholarships and grants. Among his books are Experiment with life itself (commended by the CICA award 2013), First Works (with B. Steele) and Rafael Moneo. Building, Teaching, Writing (with N. Ray). He previously worked as an architect with Foster + Partners, Carlos Ferrater and Rafael Moneo.

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Experiments With Life Itself (ENG ED.)

Francisco González de CanalesFive experiments made by prestigious architects on their own homes during the dark days of the Second World War.

Radical Domestic Architectures between 1937 and 1959 Francisco González de Canales Five experiments made by prestigious architects on their own homes during the dark days of the Second World War. In most books or manuals on the history of modern architecture we found a large number of pages devoted to the avant-garde movement that took place in-between wars and to the reconstruction and expansion after World War II. Therebetween, as a misunderstanding or an agreed silence, is a big gap of dark years, wars and exiles of which you can hardly speak about. It is precisely in those dark years when the most experimental and inspiring projects had place. Architects and artists relegated to the margins of civil reality began to present a picture of reactions to a cultural situation unsustainable. Francisco González de Canales analyzes a constellation of scattered cases between late thirties and late fifties of the twentieth century he calls

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Experimentos con la Vida Misma (SP ED.)

Francisco González de CanalesRadical Domestic Architectures between 1937 and 1959

Arquitecturas Domesticas Radicales ente 1937 y 1959 Francisco González de Canales Five experiments made by prestigious architects on their own homes during the dark days of the Second World War. In most books or manuals on the history of modern architecture we found a large number of pages devoted to the avant-garde movement that took place in-between wars and to the reconstruction and expansion after World War II. Therebetween, as a misunderstanding or an agreed silence, is a big gap of dark years, wars and exiles of which you can hardly speak about. It is precisely in those dark years when the most experimental and inspiring projects had place. Architects and artists relegated to the margins of civil reality began to present a picture of reactions to a cultural situation unsustainable. Francisco González de Canales analyzes a constellation of scattered cases between late thirties and late fifties of the twentieth century he calls

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