architectourism 01
SPAIN
Architectourism is a series of guides describing the most interesting architectural phenomena and realizations created over the past few decades. The authors - Bartosz Haduch and Michal Haduch of the NArchitekTURA design group - present a subjective selection of projects illustrating the richness and diversity of contemporary architecture, based on impressions and experiences brought back from their many trips to Europe, America, Africa and Asia.
The first part of the architectourism series is an almost three hundred-page tour of picturesque Spain. The selected buildings, ranging from the minimalist works of Alberto Campo Baezy to the sculptural forms of Frank Gehry, are shown in a somewhat broader, approximately architectural context. This vast panorama includes 100 projects by 70 studios, located in 67 towns and cities. The projects are sorted functionally, geographically, with addresses and GPS coordinates. Spain has been divided into eight regions: Andalusia, Castile and León with Castilla-La Mancha and Extremadura, Madrid, Galicia with Asturias and Cantabria, the Basque Country with Navarre and La Rioja, Catalonia with Aragon, Valencia with Murcia, and the Canary Islands with the Balearic Islands. A comprehensive introductory essay of more than 25 pages, which emphasizes the social, political, cultural and economic context, the history of the sites' creation, as well as their subsequent history, presents the viewer with a broader point of view and facilitates learning about the various concepts of spatial design.
The book contains a collection of individual architectural objects, arranged geographically by region of the country. In addition to accompanying basic data, such as GPS coordinates and addresses, it primarily contains professional, album-like photographs taken by both stars of contemporary architectural photography and the book's authors. The whole is complemented by architectural drawings and synthetic hand sketches prepared especially for the architectourism series, clearly presenting the structure and form of the presented buildings. A unified system of visual identification and graphics by Michal Sapeta and Bartosz Haduch should facilitate the journey, both the virtual one - through the book, and the real one - through Spain. So we invite you to join us on an "architectural" journey through Spain!
