Table of contents: Introductions: Homage à Coderch by Kenneth Frampton Introduction to the Architecture of an Ethics and 1 + 10 Houses by José Antonio Coderch by Rafael Diez Works and Projects: Ugalde House, Caldes d?Estrac, Barcelona, 1951-1953 Ballvè House, Camprodón, Girona, 1957 Olano House, Comillas, Cantabria, 1957 Biosca House, Igualada, Barcelona, 1961 Luque House, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, 1964-1966 Gili House, Sitges, Barcelona, 1965-1966 Entrecanales House, La Moraleja, Madrid, 1966 Rovira House, Canet de Mar, Barcelona, 1967 Soler-Badia House, Igualada, Barcelona, 1969-1971 Zóbel House, Sotogrande, Cádiz, 1970-1972 Güell House, Barcelona, 1971 Biography nexus It Isn't Geniuses We Need Right Now and Letter to Alison Smithson by José Antonio Coderch Coderch: Ugalde, Girasol and Trade by Oriol Bohigas Coderch Lamp (1952) by Elías Torres |
José Antonio Coderch de Sentmenat was born in 1913 and died en Barcelona in 1984. These years delimit his life and work. But the great internal coherence of his thinking, distilled within his architecture, goes beyond these temporal limits, his own idiosyncrasy and the reduced geographical framework where it developed, to provide a reflection on architecture from an ethical standpoint. Although, recognised as the most important catalan architect after World War II, this implicit depth is perhaps one of the reasons his work has not been widely disseminated.
This new edition in hardcover book format of 2G issue devoted to José Antonio Coderch presents a collection of houses constructed by the Catalan architect. It includes 11 houses, starting with the Ugalde House, the great work that marks the initiation of his mature phase. In it, not only does Coderch definitely embrace the language of modern architecture, nuanced by his respect for context, but also hones his own spatial conception of the house in nature. It is the experimental prototype for the following houses. In ordering these intuitions, the free lines of the first are not repeated.
