Lecture (Spanish)

Xavier Bordils (Castelló, 1939) has stood out for his contributions to promote and spread design, graphic design and packaging, as well as for his intense projectual activity. Convictions and preferences are summarised in the text that goes with his mark: ¿Xavier Bordils: anti-stylist design, graphic design, structural design, global design, utilitary design, industrial product design, sematic design, architectural design, design, blah, blah, blah.¿

This book pays tribute to two important systems of architectural representation: the model and the photography. It rescues over one hundred original photographs of outstanding models - finally built or not built - in Spain during the twentieth-century. A modern, visual, critical and historiographical discourse of the first magnitude. Beyond the analysis of their technical or compositional structure, the book includes sample pictures by photographs like Catala- Roca, Kindel , Pando, Llado, Maspons - Ubina Gomez or Massats and architects as Aizpurua , de la Sota and Higueras

Cómo miran los arquitectos, cómo se han construido la mirada aquellos que se estudian y cómo podemos aprender de los mismos confeccionando la nuestra. Ésa es la búsqueda que da forma a este trabajo, teniendo como objetivo primero la arquitectura.

Este libro explica la historia de las 5 casas que han alojado a la Biblioteca Nacional desde su apertura, en 1712 como Real Librera̕ Pb︢lica, hasta la actualidad. El autor, profesor de Arquitectura, explica los diferentes org̕enes de esas casas y estudia sus arquitecturas en relacin̤ con el destino al que fueron asociadas en cada p̌oca.