Title: L.R.E.V.M.C.
Description: "En 1986, Italo Calvino postuló las 'Seis propuestas' que debían definir el lenguaje de la literatura del nuevo milenio. Nuestro entorno se expresa y define mediante la arquitectura. Lo que tenéis en las manos es una reflexión, una apuesta sobre qué lenguaje debe hablar la arquitectura en este nuevo milenio. Unos proyectos que --vistos en perspectiva, parecen construidos como si las hubiesen seguido-- son el punto de partida. Si la literatura nos habla de la vida, la arquitectura es el marco donde ésta sucede. La arquitectura, que fija el territorio y nos orienta, es lo que define estas 'Coordenadas para el Nuevo Milenio' como si de un viaje de vuelta se tratase. Los lenguajes sirven para hablar. Este libro es una suerte de respuesta de un diálogo que quedará abierto."--Page 4 of printed paper wrapper.

"Sei proposte per il prossimo millennio", was originally a series of lectures written by Italo Calvino, an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels for the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard, but never delivered as Calvino died before leaving Italy. The book "L.R.E.V.M.C." (Lightness, Quickness, Exactitude, Visibility, Multiplicity, Consistency), inspired by these legendary lectures examines some architectural manifestations, projects that -seen in perspective, seem to be built as if they had followed "Six Memos for the Next Millennium" as the starting point. "The Plastic Man inhabits the Six Memos. Batet's place contains them. Also some music, movies, books, paintings. And also many architectures. I intend for some of these manifestations to inhabit these pages. In a transverse way" (HKB Translation) --Page 27. Author Jaume Prat Ortells (Barcelona, 1975) is an architect, curator and critic. He studied at the School of Architecture of Barcelona (2002), where he is now a professor.
Subjects: Architectural criticism, Influence, Architecture, Philosophy, Architectural design, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
People: Italo Calvino