Destrucción
Subtitle: obras, proyectos
By: Albert Gironès [and others] ; edición de Carlos A. Segura
Contributors: Operaciones (Costa Rica)
Edition: Primera edición.
Publisher: Operaciones
Published: 2019
Place of publication: San José, Costa Rica
Language: spa
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9789930965221
Subjects: Architecture; Architecture and society; Aesthetics
Description: The first book of architecture theory published in Costa Rica. With a contemporary editorial design, the book incorporates the traditional bookbinder craft of the 18th-century creating a piece that mixes of architecture, art, design and texts. "This book brings together a body of essays crossed by the analysis of the theoretical and practical scopes of destruction in the architectural work and production of the territory" --Cover. Despite the fact that the first publishing body dedicated exclusively to architecture (the magazine Habitar) was constituted by the Colegio de Arquitectos de Costa Rica 4 years after its foundation in 1971 in what might seem like a trade union effort to establish autonomy over its editorial practices- and the fact that criticism had been claimed by the architects, neither criticism nor theory played an important role among its pages: Habitar as other independent magazines on the national and regional scene- concentrated on describing, reviewing, validating and promoting one or another type of architecture and a single type of practice: construction. This triple condition forms the general climate in which this book is immersed: one of tensions between the exclusivity of critical writing on architecture, the claim of editorial autonomy of the members through their magazine and the publication of their criticisms outside their autonomous publications. All in all, the note that opens our book -this is an architectural practice, not editorialʺ-, it does so understanding that is stressed already by the triple condition already installed in the discipline.ʺ The installation Destrucción. "1. Arquitectura - Teoría" was included in the exhibition oculis vestris / Con tus ojosʺ (22 nov. 2019 - 29 feb. 2020) in the Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo de Costa Rica (MADC). Also exhibited in the XV Bienal Internacional de Arquitectura de Costa Rica, Colegio de Arquitectos de Costa Rica (5 - 8 oct. 2020)
Notes: Limited edition of 200.

Includes Certificate of Authenticity numbered and signed by the author, and 2 stickers ("Operaciones", "Destrucción")

Includes bibliographical references.

In Spanish.
Table of contents: title: Sobre este segundo intento / Albert Gironès.; title: El vacío como proyecto de urbanización: Técnicas de remoción preservación y destrucción en el giro y traslado del Hôtel de Cabre / Carlos Aguilar; title: Tenemos algunos aviones. (Texto introductorio.) / Carlos A. Segura (ed.).; title: "The land divided, the World united" o; Dibujo y borrado de la frontera entre la ciudad de Panamá y la zona del canal / Darién Montañez; title: Habitar una catástrofe / Diana Barquero; title: Imposibilidad de destrucción en el páramo / Diego González; title: Aquí podría vivir gente / Guillermo Boehler; title: El orden político estratégico detrás del aparente desorden de los escombros. (Texto introductorio.) / Léopold Lambert; title: Destrucción y velocidad: de la dromología en la construcción de la oposición / Sebastián González; title: Los descampados y demoliciones de Lara Almarcegui: El valor en tránsito de unas ruinas contemporáneas / Sofía Fernández.