On Tuesday, February 19, the book ‘Años alejandrinos’ was presented at the Ivorypress Gallery in Madrid. Luis Fernández-Galiano, the author, presented the work accompanied by two Pritzker laureates: Rafael Moneo on one side, and Norman Foster on the other. “It is very difficult to find a critic with Luis’s background,” noted Moneo, while Foster shared an anecdote about how he insists his children read the work of the Calatayud-born critic.
The book compiles all the articles published by the Navarrese architect during his tenure at the national newspaper ‘EL PAÍS’ between 1993 and 2006. Divided into two volumes, ‘La edad del espectáculo’ and ‘Tiempo de incertidumbre’; the first compiles texts from the final seven years of the 20th century, and the second covers the subsequent seven years in the 21st century. The arrangement and structure of these texts inevitably recall the 14-syllable Alexandrine verse, which is itself composed of two hemistichs.
In his work, he offers an analysis of the world through the lens of architecture, incorporating various disciplines from history and politics to economics and sociology. The book successfully serves as a pixelated mosaic of historical events, presented with highly visual thinking.
The collection of texts is illustrated with more than 2,500 images and includes nearly 2,000 references to the key figures behind the projects and debates of that era. Calatrava, Herzog & de Meuron, Gaudí, Miralles, and Foster and Moneo themselves are among the many architects analyzed in the book, which features a practical name index.
The reinvention of New York, the Altamira Cave Museum, the renovation of the Roman Theater of Sagunto, and the decline of the KIO Towers—which opens the book—are among the subjects examined in the articles compiled by Fernández-Galiano. Reflecting this scope, the cover of the first volume features an image of the Guggenheim Bilbao, while the second features the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers.
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This article was written by Borja Fernández. The translation is powered by AI.
