Modelling for the Camera: Photography of Architectural Models in Spain 1925-1970

Bergera, Inaki

ISBN 10: 8416248559 / ISBN 13: 9788416248551

Published by La Fabrica and Fundacion Telefonica, 2016

About this Item

This is a fine hardcover without dust jacket as issued with no wear at all. Completely clean. Text in English and Spanish. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Bibliography. 10" high X 9" wide, 204 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.

Seller Inventory # 017451

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Modelling for the Camera: Photography of Architectural Models in Spain 1925-1970
• Publisher: La Fabrica and Fundacion Telefonica
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8416248559
• ISBN 13: 9788416248551
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern Architecture

About this title

Synopsis

Modelling for the Camera pays tribute to two important systems of architectural representation: the model and the photograph. Rescuing over 100 original photographs of outstanding models--some eventually realized, and some that would remain unbuilt--from 20th-century Spain, this volume offers a modern, visual, critical and historiographical discourse on Spanish architecture from this rich period after the First World War.

Beyond the analysis of the models’ technical and compositional structure, the book includes sample pictures by photographers such as Francesc Català-Roca, Joaquín del Palacio (Kindel), Juan Pando, Martin Lladó, Oriol Maspons Ubiña Gomez and Ramón Massats, and architects such as José Manuel Aizpurúa, Alejandro de la Sota and Fernando Higueras. An amazing compendium of both modernist photography and architecture, this substantial hardcover is one of the first of its kind.

Review

If the scale model is the architect’s lucid dream of structure, form, and dimension, then a model’s photograph freezes and flattens the materialized vision...This stylish exhibition catalogue explores the projective relationship between maquette and image with the consolidation of modernist architecture in Spain as a fertile historical backdrop. (Metropolis Magazine)