Main entry:

Cuadra, Manuel, 1952-

Title & Author:

Clorindo Testa, architect / Manuel Cuadra with Alfonso Corona Martínez ; photography by Hans-Jürgen Commerell ; edited by Kristin Feireiss.

Publication:

Rotterdam : NAI Publishers, ©2000.

Description:

160 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Notes:
Published on the occasion of the exhibition of Clorindo Testa, Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, 15 September-5 November 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-158).
Time and Timelessness in two Buildings by Clorindo Testa 8 -- Clorindo Testa, Portrait of an Architect and an Architecture 11 -- The Architecture of Clorindo Testa 26.
Also issued online.

Summary:

"The Argentinian architect Clorindo Testa (1923) earned a worldwide reputation with his designs for the Banco de Londres y America del Sud (1960-66) and the Biblioteca Nacional (1961-95), both in Buenos Aires. These powerful urban megastructures of rough concrete reveal the influence of Le Corbusier. At the same time they propose a dialectical synthesis of public and private space that places Testa on a par with the Japanese Metabolists and other futuristic movements of the early sixties." "After this epic period, which lasted until the late seventies, Testa's architecture acquired a more intimate, contemplative and introverted scale and character. From the early eighties, his buildings address the spirit of a place, developing a strongly poetic and profoundly human dimension. Rather than flaunting new technologies, they integrate attributes of traditional architecture in a thoroughly contemporary design. Among the most beautiful buildings completed during this period is the architect's own beach house Capotesta (1983) in Pinamar. Architecture historian Manuel Cuadra portrays the architect and his architecture. This monograph documents sixteen major projects in detail, built between the 1960s until the present day, richly illustrated with photographs by Hans-Jurgen Commerell. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

9056621432 (pbk.)
9789056621438 (pbk.)

Subject:

Testa, Clorindo, 1923-2013 Exhibitions.
Testa, Clorindo, 1923- Expositions.
Testa, Clorindo, 1923-2013
Architecture Argentina Exhibitions.
Architecture Argentine Expositions.
Architecture
Gebouwen.
Bouwprojecten.
Argentina

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Added entries:

Testa, Clorindo, 1923-2013.
Corona Martínez, Alfonso.
Feireiss, Kristin.
Nederlands Architectuurinstituut.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 215991
Call No.: NA44.T342.9 C8 2000
Status: Available