Barcelona
By (Author) Jon Tugores
Actar Publishers
Actar Publishers
3rd April 2018
English
United States
General
Non Fiction
Photography: subject-specific techniques and principles
Nature in art
Photography and photographs
Places and peoples: general and pictorial works
778.3/5094672
Hardback
80
Width 355mm, Height 239mm
1080g
This book is an idea of architects and friends Carles Llop, and Vicente Guallart, that were seduced by the way Barcelona is read by Jon Tugore's eyes. For the first time, the city is shown from the sea side, acknowledging the close relation of the city and the topography that encloses it. It somehow actualizes the drawings that imagined Barcelona done by the ancient navigators. The main reason for this book is to offer another point of view the way Barcelona is read. A tribute to scale, territory, nature and architecture. A complete vision of the evolution of a city that knows how dialogue with mountains and the Mediterranean constraints. A magnificent example of well-understood urbanism that dealt with the Roman Empire all the way to the re-shaping of a car infested city during the post-Olympic era. Without falling into imported cliches from other continents. A city always under a constant re-thinking attitude.
Jon Tugores is a Barcelona based architect & pilot that uses both disciplines to take global photographs. Always working on opportunities to share his architecture with the rest of the world. With buildings designed in Barcelona, Mallorca, Bahrain, Japan, Dallas