Antonio Millan GomezUniversitat Politècnica de Catalunya | UPC · Department of Architectural Representation
Antonio Millan Gomez
Architect, ETSABarcelona (1975), Ph D. Architect ETSAB (1981) Full Professor UPC (1991)
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Introduction
- Architectural representation and Modelling
- Topological descriptions of places
- Critical revision of the Modern Movement in Architecture
- Communication in Architectural Representation
- Dialogues between Architecture and Urbanity
- Use and Usages of Public Spaces ( Space Syntax)
- Fringe design strategies
- Anthropological bases of contemporary Architectural Design.
- Third Generation/ Team X
Additional affiliations
October 1984 - October 2017
Position
- Full Professor on Architectural Representation, Coordinator of Ph D. Programme on Arch. Heritage
Education
June 1975 - October 1981
September 1968 - May 1975
Publications
Publications (29)
p>En su lucha con la naturaleza los arquitectos noruegos aprendieron a amarla, haciendo -ese era el sentido inicial de la palabra poiesis. Se tratan aquí cuatro paradigmas, nombrados con sendas metáforas, de los modos de hacer de Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter, tras un breve marco general: se procede desde situaciones menos urbanas a una mayor complejid...
The continuity of European Heritage, from late German Baroque to the avant-garde, shows episodes which are difficult to explain with the sole vision of Modern Architecture historians. In these circumstances, buildings such as the church of the Three Crosses of Alvar Aalto in Vuoksenniska or several works of Finnish architect Juha Leiviskä seem to b...
FOREWORD
There is a challenge that many gifted criticists face at a crucial moment of their career: out of the existing introductions to modern architecture, those that we remember have a special taint that makes them distinctive. And, as different architectural approaches appear with time, new viewpoints are needed. In Rethinking Modernity: Betwee...
The interpretation of context is an initial step in several Team X architectural proposals (Aldo Van Eyck, Alison and Peter Smithson, De Carlo). It is also the case of their friend Enric Miralles. Mutual influences are perceptible in several works, providing a touch of freshness to current architecture , also the understanding of complexity, when e...
Diverse opinions have been expressed about RCR architects, their professional and human progress, developed with a continuous effort, already perceptible from their first years as professionals, even before starting their studies, and which became increasingly evident as successive competitions were won, acquiring recognition and presence in variou...
A reflection on the possible acquaintance of two texts, the treatises De Institutio Arithmetica and De Musica compiled by Boethius, that might have been tools of ideation used by the architect in the process of project for Sant Fructuós de Tàrraco’s northern basilica is presented. A system of dimensions in accordance with arithmetic elaborations co...
p>Los croquis y notas de Sverre Fehn, digitalizados y conservados en el Natjonalmuseet de Oslo, son muy variados: diagramas, apuntes in situ, esbozos iniciales, recopilaciones. Su carácter complementario es una lección gráfica y arquitectónica, que requiere lecturas actualizada para su comprensión.</p
Cartographic analysis provides a wealth of information when original sources are subjected to scrutiny with ITC tools. The cities studied here, on opposite shores of the Mediterranean, apparently different and supposedly incomparable morphologically, exhibit some akin structural traits. They interest us here, to evaluate the systems inherent to the...
SUMARY
Sverre Fehn, the 1996 Pritzker prize-winner, is well known for his sensibility in dealing with the place and extracting lessons that respect it together with the architecture implanted there. A responsible follow-up of his works shows changing operations from demanding reflections that tend towards a poetic and logical synthesis, as if his...
p>Debates on the actuality of modern architecture by new contributions could be considered by critics as a deviation from its essence. In such a context, some works by Finnish studies exhibited at the Museum of Finnish Architecture in Spring, 2015 provide fresh approaches with their proposals and interest us here to reconsider architectural moderni...
La representación figurativa en la obra de Mondrian evolucionó hacia el lenguaje neoplástico desde una representación purificada de la realidad. Esta abstracción progresiva –de color y forma– en búsqueda de lo inmutable y la reducción de la corporeidad de los objetos a composiciones de planos y tensiones en los límites originó otro concepto de espa...
RESUMEN El estudio de cuarenta ciudades de todo el mundo por los investigadores de Space Syntax ha permitido comprobar su funcionamiento ante el movimiento que las cruza, la selección de rutas alternativas desde un origen a un destino, la función de diagonales y atajos en su elección, así como la trascendencia que estos hechos tienen para un progre...
Through the exploitation of human perceptual characteristics, illusions provoke extraordinary experiences that are notably different from reality. Nevertheless, besides focusing on the falsehood of illusions, we will consider how they can be devices that make perception the protagonist of our experience of Architecture. Therefore, illusions can be...
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Abstract
These notes remind some debates held at the ILA&UD Laboratory, directed by Giancarlo De Carlo and organized by Connie Etra Occhialini, that concentrated on the interpretation of the different layers at Santa Maria della Scala, Siena during the 1986/87 and 1987/88 sessions, with the always evocative comments by Peter Smithson. The masters'...
This paper aims to unveil the structure of design and communication processes in what is commonly understood as Architectural Representation, and it was presented on February, 1984 at the First Symposium of Architectural Graphic Expression, held at La Coruña, where the guidelines were set up for successive International Conferences of this area of...
Architects do work with images constantly, forming a personal imaginary that helps to unfold continuous strategies for design.
The parameters of representation, as originally established in Oriental and Western cultures, are well known (mental set, medium, equivalence between representation means and those entities they refer to). Dealing with them...
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Questions
Questions (2)
I appear as A M Gomez, owing to a mistake produced in the Scopus data-base.
My real name is Antonio Millan-Gomez, not A M Gomez
Remember Plato and the process of dialogue. Even a slave -not considered a Greek citizen- could take part in such a questioning "unveiling" the chances of solution.
Processes of creativity require a certain degree of articulation, structuring the chances of a solution, and, especially, discarding bias, which could be a waste of time, therefore, irrelevant to solution-searching.
Looking at the image you include (without reading the whole text -for which I present my apologies) it comes to mind that some of those operation could be combinations of other typical, or archetypal -if we may say so. Accordingly, two processes emerge: first, the isolation of those typical operations and, second, the structures that enable later articulations and combinations. It is then, when you observe a series of transformations that the invariants may lead to the "sketching" of structural procedures.
