Luis Miguel Lus-Arana- Architect, PhD, MDesS
- Professor at University of Zaragoza
Luis Miguel Lus-Arana
- Architect, PhD, MDesS
- Professor at University of Zaragoza
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The presence of cartoons, comics, and graphic narrative has an at least centennial history that can be dated as far back as Le Corbusier’s childhood. However, the introduction of comics in the design studio is not a recent development1. Only in the late 1960s and 1970s, the comics medium was embraced by architects who located themselves outside the...
En 1995, el dibujante Joost Swarte recibió el inusual encargo de diseñar una nueva sede para el teatro experimental De Toneelschhur en Haarlem (Países Bajos). Presentado con éxito a las autoridades dos años después, la vida del proyecto continuaría junto con la firma holandesa Mecanoo, que colaboraría con Swarte hasta su apertura en 2003. Veinte añ...
In 1995, cartoonist Joost Swarte received the unusual commission to design a new headquarters for the experimental theater De Toneelschhur in Haarlem, the Netherlands. Successfully presented to the authorities two years later, the life of the project would continue together with the Dutch firm Mecanoo, which would collaborate with Swarte until its...
Since its opening to the public in 1965, John Andrews’s megastructure Scarborough College —currently University of Toronto, Scarborough— has received universal acclaim. Praised by Kenneth Frampton as “by far the most daring, comprehensive and radical… of all the completed university complexes of recent years”, Scarborough has enjoyed, unlike many o...
Contrary to what might be expected, portrayals of women architects in films can be found as far back as the early decades of the twentieth century. In this article, the authors review a few films released between 1912 and 1943 in which one of the characters is a woman architect, focusing on three of them: Dr. Monica (1934), Woman Chases Man (1937)...
In June 1971, The Architectural Review featured the culmination of Townscape, a campaign that the issue’s author, as well as the magazine’s editor and owner, Hubert de Cronin Hastings, promoted for decades. Civilia, The End of Suburban Man was a monograph that described a fictional English New Town, illustrated through an extensive collection of vi...
An editorial experiment pursued by Jean-Paul Jungmann between 1977 and 1983, L’Ivre de Pierres provides a series of imaginary visions, mostly of an imaginary Paris, conceived through architectural narrations that were articulated in the pages of a book. This article examines L’Ivre de Pierres’ unconventional approach to figurative writing, as an ex...
En 1983, el equipo formado por Saturnino Cisneros Lacruz, Juan Antonio Carmona Mateu, Manuel Fernández Ramí-rez e Isabel García Elorza comenzaba la construcción del proyecto de ampliación de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Zaragoza. La necesidad de construir un nuevo aulario surgía de la mano del progresivo aumento de estudiantes de Der...
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![Figure 4: A retrofitted future. Comparison between [4.1] the corridors...](publication/344836007/figure/fig5/AS:949752610967557@1603450076436/A-retrofitted-future-Comparison-between-41-the-corridors-of-the-Nostromo-in-Ridley_Q320.jpg)
Since their inception in the XIX Century, mass media have been crucial in shaping the image of the urban environment on our collective subconscious. In the early 20th Century, newspapers and magazines bustled with exacerbated but fascinating images of the city of the future, which appeared as hyperbolic portrayals of the perception that the contemp...
SPA. En el contexto de la actual crisis medioambiental, 'The Owned World' ofrece un rápido recorrido por los diferentes modos en que la ficción escrita y audiovisual ha representado el apocalipsis climático. Tomando como punto de partida la 'imaginación del desastre' de Susan Sontag, el texto se centra en los apocalipsis descritos por J.G. Ballard...
Since its first publication in 1971 as a special issue of The Architectural Review, Civilia, The End of Suburban Man has remained an anomalous document within the history of Architectural Theory and Criticism. Profusely illustrated with collages made from hundreds of photographs of buildings published in the pages of the magazine, the book describe...
The last centuries have meant an unprecedented development for humanity. But, at the same time, they have brought a change in the landscapes of the planet, which have gone from natural to man-made. This history, told by the eloquence of a Robert Crumb comic, makes this transformation clear and helps us question our own intervention on the planet.
Avant‐garde architects from the 1960s onwards drew numerous outside influences into the discipline, reshaping architecture's limits and communicative properties. Architect and researcher Luis Miguel Lus Arana, lecturer in History and Theory of Architecture at the University of Zaragoza in Spain, explores how comic books and cartoons were mobilised...
Fictions, taken in a broad sense, are part of the architect’s daily practice. From the definition of the program to the design process, architects need narratives to guide their decision making. Fiction, in the strict sense, has also been present in different forms throughout the history of architecture, providing alternative ideas or offering favo...
La generación nacida al final de la II Guerra Mundial llegó a su juventud arrastrada por la inercia del optimismo tecnocrático que había desarrollado la generación anterior. En un contexto de bonanza económica, la juventud se rebeló contra el sistema generando una nueva sensibilidad que daría lugar a diferentes respuestas contraculturales. En estos...
As a both graphic and narrative medium, the relationships between comics and other media have been continuous since their encoding as such in the late XIX century, and architecture is not alien to this overlap. Academic disdain notwithstanding, the presence of comics in architecture can be traced back to Le Corbusier and his storyboarded Lettre a M...
p>Pese a su tradicional codificación como disciplina menor, o degeneración de expresiones artísticas verdaderas, la caricatura ha gozado de una especial atención por parte de los artistas, así como de una reivindicación por parte de la moderna historia del arte. Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, siguiendo los pasos de Ernst Kris y de historiadores anterio...
p>Desde la aparición del movimiento en la primera mitad de los años 20, el maridaje de surrealismo y fotografía ha tenido a la arquitectura como uno de sus objetos privilegiados, produciendo imposibles fantasías arquitectónicas revestidas por el velo de lo real. Con la llegada de los métodos de foto-manipulación digital, esta experimentación se ha...
Desde la aparición de los primeros daguerrotipos en la primera mitad del siglo XIX, la manipulación de la imagen fotográfica ha sido una compañera inalienable del desarrollo del medio. Introducidos para suplir las carencias de la técnica, la fotomanipulación, el collage, o los trucajes visuales pronto comenzaron a ser explotados como privilegiados...
The productive relationship between architecture and science fiction, so clearly visible today at the crossover between digital architecture produced by professionals in the field and that found in the media (in advertising, film and videogames), can in fact be traced all the way back to the twentieth century and even earlier, to the second half of...
When the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum opened its doors back in a
now surprisingly distant 1997, it had a series of immediate effects.
By becoming the built and published equivalent to Led Zeppelin's
"Stairway to Heaven," allegedly the most played song by radio stations
around the world, it catapulted Frank Gehry into the top of architectural
stardom. I...
Built when I was still a rookie architecture student, the Guggenheim
Museum was a building we were thoroughly taught to despise, because
of all its arbitrariness and extravagance. However, as I saw it
growing in my regular trips back to Bilbao, evolving from a sort of
constructivist vision á la Tatlin into an ethereal compound of reflecting
titaniu...
In the last decades of the XIX century and especially in the subsequent turn of the century, the mass media turned a prominent gaze on the urban environment that witnessed its birth, showcasing images of its everyday life, and also speculating about a future that, sometimes, depicted more vividly the particularities of its present. With the advent...
Durante las últimas décadas del XIX, y de manera muy especial con la llegada del nuevo siglo, los mass media dirigieron una mirada preeminente al entorno urbano que los vio nacer, mostrando imágenes de su devenir contemporáneo pero también especulando con un futuro que, en ocasiones, ilustraba más fidedignamente las particularidades de su presente....
In 1921, issue 11-12 of L’Esprit Nouveau featured an article entitled “Toepffer, précurseur du cinema” where Le Corbusier, signing as ‘De Fayet’, vindicated the figure of Rodolphe Töpffer (1799-1846), a Swiss a pioneer of comics, as a key element in the development of cinema. Marginal as it may seem, this reference unveils a deeper relationship bet...
Indisolublemente ligado a su percepción como producto destinado a un público infantil, el cómic ha evolucionado a lo largo del siglo XX desprovisto de la legitimidad intelectual rápidamente adquirida por otros medios como el cine o la fotografía, y la atención que se le ha dedicado desde la arquitectura lo ha relegado habitualmente a la categoría d...
RESUMEN Desde su tímida aparición en 1961, y fundamentalmente a partir de su consolidación definitiva a mediados de la misma década, Archigram, revista y grupo, ha pasado a ser un sine-qua-non del panorama utópico y de las historias de las agrupaciones arquitectónicas. El punto de inflexión en su consolidación como un elemento indispensable de la h...
Tied to their early encoding as a children's' medium, comics -comic strips, funnies, comic books or, more recently, graphic novels- have made their way throughout the XXth Century devoid of the intellectual legitimacy which other visual media, such as cinema, or photography, rapidly gained within the cultural scene. Consequently, comics have seldom...
It is commonly known that in Spanish Architecture Schools, professional degrees have been suffering from a downplay of the classical ideal of ‘the architect as a humanist' in favor of technical specialization. Nowadays, most of the Degree Academic Plans are overly linked to professional life. This fact has brought as a result the students' lack of...
