Book – “The Wall” by Jesús María Aparicio Guisado – Translation directed by Simon Rodriguez-Pagès

“The wall – an essential concept in the architectural project: the materialization of the idea and the idealization of the material”.

The translation of Jesús María Aparicio Guisado’s book “The Wall” has just been published by Editions Caryatide (January 2024), under the direction of Simon Rodriguez-Pagès and with the support of Ateliers 2/3/4/.

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 la 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.

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To mark the book launch, Caryatide and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris Val de Seine will welcome Jesús María Aparicio Guisado for a lecture entitled “Reflections from the tripod table” on Friday March 15, 2024 at 6:30pm.

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École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris-Val de Seine, 3 Quai Panhard et Levassor, 75013 Paris

(Original title: El muro : concepto esencial en el proyecto arquitectónico: la materialización de la idea y la idealización de la materia, Biblioteca Nueva, 2006).

Available on caryatide.org and in bookshops

Publisher: Caryatide

With the support of : Center national du livre and Ateliers 2/3/4/