<p>A thoroughly unconventional monograph on the work of contemporary architect Enric Miralles, this book by acclaimed artist David Bestué combines the forms of essay, diary, notebook, and more to create a book that is simultaneously an analysis of artistic work and a work of art itself.<br><br> Asking what “spending time” in and around the works of Miralles means, Bestué coaxes unlikely meanings and emotions from them, capturing the buildings and spaces in a series of photographs that illustrate a living architecture, removed from the preciousness to which architecture can so frequently succumb. Applying the mind of an artist to the work of another creator, Bestué tries to unravel Miralles’s creative process, to understand how his ideas were formed, refined, and made into physical objects that survive and thrive in a seemingly unsympathetic world.</p>

Enric Miralles from Left to Right (and without Glasses)

Arts & Photography

Bestué, David

Architecture

Tenov Books

Co-opting the discredited format of the history textbook with its didactic tone, well-defined stages, and linear development, David Bestué subverts the clichés of historiography, creating an unorthodox path whilst recovering forgotten ideas and breathing new life into familiar tropes. It is a work that seeks to understand how the landscape is drawn around us. A fresh and very personal reading of our recent history, illuminated by photographs, collages, and gadgets created to explain the reasons of form. Formalismo Puro is an art project in its own right, created by a conceptual artist with a background in sculpture, enthralled by the notion of architecture as form.

Formalismo Puro: Un repaso a la arquitectura moderna y contemporánea de España

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Enric Miralles from Left to Right (and without Glasses)

Formalismo Puro: Un repaso a la arquitectura moderna y contemporánea de España