Part of:

People:

Abalos & Herreros (archive creator)
Abalos & Herreros (architectural firm)

Title:

Publications

Date:

1920, 1990-2008

Level of archival description:
Series

Extent and medium:

Approximately 1,431 drawings (mostly reprographic copies)
Approximately 734 photographic materials
Approximately 20 graphic materials
Approximately 1.07 l.m. of textual records
1 Floppy disk

Scope and content:
This series documents publications by Ábalos&Herreros and by the firm's publishing house Liga Multimedia Internaciónal (LMI). It includes a doctoral thesis “La Casa de Don Giovanni” by D. José Queglas; a book series titled “Exit”; writings about the firm for an issue of 2G: International Architecture Review, no. 22; “Técnica y architectura en la ciudad contemporánea” by Abalos & Herreros; as well as various publications by Abalos & Herreros and other authors.

“La Casa de Don Giovanni” by D. José Queglas was published at the LMI. Documenting the publication are copies of the doctoral thesis, dummies, proofs, correspondence, contracts, reports, and an ISBN (International Standard Book Number) request form. Material was produced between 1972 and 1996.

The book series “Exit” was also published by the LMI. Five titles were published and a sixth was in development, when the project was abandoned for unknown reasons. The publications in the series were titled: Exit 1: Exit; Exit 2: Las Afueras : siete visiones de la vida metropolitana; Exit 3: Le Corbusier. Rascacielos; Exit 4: [unknown]; and Exit 5: Natural artificial. Exit 2’s project title was “Madrid Metrópolis” and was changed later to “Las Afueras […]”. However, Abalos & Herreros did publish a book entitled “Madrid Metrópolis”, but there is no relation between the two publications. Documenting the book series are correspondence, a dummy, publications, notes, clippings, plans, invoices, contracts, and reference, digital, graphic and photographic materials.

The publication “Abalos & Herreros” featured in the 2G: International architecture review, no 22 includes plans and illustrations. The issue is about Abalos & Herreros’ work from the 1990s. Documenting the publication are design development, presentation, and work drawings, as well as textual records.

The publication of “Técnica y architectura en la ciudad contemporánea” by Abalos & Herreros was documented in phases of its creation. This publication was translated in English under the title “Tower and Office: from Modernist Theory to Contemporary Practice”. It was published as Buell Center / Columbia Books of Practice by MIT Press. Documenting the publication are proofs, illustrations, design development drawings, correspondence, reference and photographic materials.

Various publications by Abalos & Herreros and titles published by the firm’s publishing house LMI include writings and correspondence, as well as reference, graphic and photographic materials.

Reference number:

AP164.S2

Arrangement:
Documents were arranged by donors prior to their arrival at the Canadian Center for Architecture (CCA). They were kept in this order by the processing archivist as much as possible.

This series was previously titled "Exhibitions and publications" and was arranged by publication or exhibition into subseries. In 2020, the fonds was reprocessed and exhibition subseries were moved to series AP164.S1 Architectural projects. This was done to reflect the fact that the archive creators viewed these exhibits as architectural projects. The exhibitions appeared listed in the architectural projects list provided by them at the time of donation. The publication subseries, which divided the material by publication, were also removed to reflect the overlapping nature of the publication materials in this series.

Language of material:

Spanish
Catalan
Dutch
English
French
German
Italian
Portuguese