The Mannerist Mind: An Architecture of Crisis

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Departing from a discussion on what it would be a mannerist attitude in the architecture of today, and theorizing around it, this book analyzes some works of contemporary European practices including Lutjens Padmanabhan, architekten de vylder vinck taillieu, TEdA, Maio, 6a architects and AOffice KGDVS.

Art critics between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries imprinted a long-standing derogatory meaning to the word mannerism. Even though scholars such as John Shearman or Wolfgang Lotz rehabilitated the term to a certain degree during the twentieth century, it is still uncommon nowadays to find the expression mannerist used without certain pejorative connotations.

This book provides a contemporary revision of the mannerist attitude for the present, creating a framework to analyze and shed light not only on the work that these practices are carrying out, but also on the less evident filiations and affinities, as well as on their deeper implications.

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Francisco Gonzlez de Canales is Professor of Architectural Composition at the University of Seville and regularly invited to the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London since 2008. He studied architecture in Seville, Barcelona and Harvard and worked for Foster+Partners and Rafael Moneo. In 2003 he founded Canales Lombardero with Nuria lvarez Lombardero, an office with which he has received various distinctions and published his work in international magazines. Between 2002 and 2006 he was director of the Neutra magazine of the College of Architects of Seville. Between 2008 and 2012 he was coordinator of the public program of the London Architectural Association as AACP coordinator. He has been a visiting professor at various international institutions and has published more than 30 articles in specialized journals. His books include: First Works: Emergent architectural practices of the 1960s and 1970s (2009, with B. Steele), Experiments with life itself (2013), Rafael Moneo: Una reflexin terica desde la profesin (2013), Rafael Moneo: Building, Teaching, Writing (2015, with N. Ray), Politics and digital fabrication. An ongoning debate (2016, with N. A. Lombardero) and Profesin y crisis (2018), Consideraciones sobre la obra de Rafael Moneo (2019), El Manierismo y su ahora (2020) and Lecturas sobre Rossi (2022).