Urtzi Grau

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The recent visit of @javieragustinrojas was not only an endless chain of conversations, drinks and productive disagreements, It also left behind several unexpected presents, including a silver block covered with an anonymous picture that seems taken from the first floor of a 1950s corporate headquarters in Manhattan, but is actually the first floor of Mario Roberto Alvarez's 'Bank of America Casa Central's built in 1965 in Buenos Aires. 'Maroo Roberto Alvarez Obra Seleccionada 1937-1987' discovers for many of us an unknown figure essential to understand the development of Argentina Corporate Modernity, that helps explain the generation of high modernisim coming from the South that included Cesar Pelli but also reorients Adamo Faiden contemporary interests. The encyclopedic book, beautifully edited by @ditellaarquitectura @editorialditellaarquitectura and @fschapochnik with materials of its archive, is hard to get due to the US cross national tariffs mess, but, if you have the patience and the resources, it is worth getting a copy. Thanks Javier and @marcelofaiden
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20 days ago
Last week the @post____________like team, @eduard.fdez @arnau.pascual @marinapovedano @laurasolsona , launched the long awaited catalogue of the first Biennal d'Arquitectura Jove de Catalunya from 2023 @agrupacio.ajac a must-have account of the generacional concerns of young Catalan architects including articles by #marinaoteroverzier #cristinagamboa #catalinasalva @_mariagarciaruiz @pia.mendaro @beth_gali and @javier.fdezco and a complete report of their activities during and since the Biennale carefully edited by @actar.publishers . Thanks Eduard, Arnau, Marina and Laura!
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21 days ago
#APERITIUAMB Acompanya’ns a un aperitiu diferent: una conversa oberta amb l'arquitecte Urtzi Grau @urtzigrau al voltant de l’exposició | Correspondre. Relacions epistolars i pràctica artística 🪟. Amb l'acompanyament d'Alexandra Laudo. A partir d’una mirada lliure, assagística i poètica, s’endinsarà en les relacions entre arquitectura, fotografia i correspondència: cartes com finestres, finestres com cartes. Un espai per escoltar, pensar i deixar-se portar per noves lectures de l’exposició. T'esperem! @heroinas_de_la_cultura @creacultura_cat @culturamataro
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25 days ago
Nice little surprises that arrived in the mail, @edgararl 'Forma Vernacula', a collection of images of architectures the author finds in his regular walks through Syracuse, following the legacy of architects documenting the US urban landscape, as @jesus_vassallo points out it is fantastic introductory text (or its conclusion, if your prefer the Spanish version) all nicely warped in a magenta edition by @prima.press . Thanks Edgar!
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2 months ago
Yet another publication from the hyper productive @seeing_itself , a collection of things half wrapped in plastic titled 'BTS' (Behind the Scenes) published last year by @atlast.books I found at @terrranova back in December.
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3 months ago
Another one to the @seeing_itself collection, his recent project for @perimeterbooks and @nievesbooks 'this is not my cat' (perhaps a tong-in-cheek reference to 'Tokyo and my Daughter') putting together colour and black and white pictures of himself and a cat... Thanks @louisa_king_ for the lovely present.
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3 months ago
One of these nice presents that when found in the mail box, make your day happier, Alejandro Carballo, Nicolas Martin, @_mombiela @c.rebolo catalog of the exhibition 'Capital Reform' @fundacioncoam collecting contemporary practices in Madrid operating in the domestic renovations and featuring projects by @pachonparedes @burr.studio @pia.mendaro @cumulolimbo_ @gonarchitects @hola.plutarco @ba____rro @hanghar.llc @unestudioreciente and @yeye.estudio nicely published by @edicionesasimetricas . Thanks Alejandro, Nicolás, Carlos and Carlos!
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3 months ago
Deligted to find José Hevia' images of my beloved #CasaOE (we completed from @fakeindustries_ with @aixopluc.architectures back in 2015 in Alforja) included in @carmeribas_arquitecta and @joanroigduran catalog of the exhibition 'Els Nous Realistes. Arquitectura Catalana i Balear d'ençà de la Crisi del 2008' that opened at the @dissenyhub back in 2023 nicely published by @barcelona_cat Institute de Cultural Barcelona and the Dissent Hub Barcelona. Thanks Joan and Carme .!
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3 months ago
Delighted to be included in the last issue of @revistaplot with the text 'una silla parcialmente calzada y una bancada levemente rebajada' introducing four projects by @central.architecture.urbanism documented by @maxdelv . Thanks @radlouda for the invitation
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4 months ago
Delighted to be includes in the @fundacion.arquia catalog of the fantastic XIII Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitetura y Urbanismo 'Climas, Acciones para el Bien Vivir' curates by @eliz_av , Maria Arquwro de Alarcon, Gary leggett Cauhas, Emilio Ontiveros de la Fuente @luis.rod.riv y @josovilla , with the book 'Folk Costumes, Indo-Pacific Air' (edited with @guille_pik and published by @artpapereditions ) that was awarded in the section 'Otras Coordenadas' thanks #xiiibiau
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4 months ago
A nice present that I finally found the time to go though, @leanamer_ imprescindible 'Chacarita Moderna, la Necrópolis Brutalista de Buenos Aires', her personal love letter to one of the forgotten of history, Italia Fulvia Villa (6th female architect graduated in Argentina and instrumental in Le Corbusier plans for Buenos Aires, edited out by her male peers) and to her amazing 'Sexto Panteon' evidence of Lucia's amazing and disappeared work, all illustrated by the images of @federicocairoli and published by @buildingbookspublishing Thanks Léa!
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4 months ago
Nice catch today at #mercatdesantantoni , @mariobottaarchitetti_official 1985 Monograph 'Architetture 1960-1985', edited by Francesco Dal Co and including some of the superb houses and schools of the early years, and his thesis graduation project from the @iuav_venezia , published by @electaeditore
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4 months ago