Le mur

Jesús María Aparicio Guisado explains his conception of architecture by exploring four major buildings around the notion of the wall, through drawing and words.
The author focuses his research on the notion of the wall, using analytical sketches to explore four major buildings in the history of architecture: the Alhambra, Palladio’s Villa Rotonda, the Monastery of Saint-Laurent-de-l’Escurial and Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House. The book takes up a dialogue latent in Gottfried Semper’s 1852 essay, with the aim of pushing back the boundaries of the dialectical relationship between the stereotomic characters of the cave and those that determine the tectonics of the hut. Through drawing and words, Jesús María Aparicio Guisado provides us with keys to understanding, analyzing and criticizing architecture of all times. The aim of this book is to study the idea that generates the project. Like the wall, architecture is born of the encounter between idea and material.