Vol. 10 (2020)

• Cover and contents

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  Cover and contents

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/bac.2020.10.0

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Editorial

• Editorial

  Pablo Gallego Picard

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  Editorial of BAc Boletín Académico, volume 10 (2020)

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/bac.2020.10.0

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Articles

• Memory, legend and landscape: The Monument to the Resistance in Cuneo by Aldo Rossi

  Manuel Ferrer Sala Juan Fernando Ródenas García

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  In this study we analyse the project for the Monument to the Resistance in Cuneo by Aldo Rossi based on the comments on this work made by the architect himself in A Scientific Autobiography (1981) and one of his quaderni azzurri (1972).
  Our hypothesis is that the Cuneo project is a work that realises an idea of ritual to which the architect had already made reference in The Architecture of the City when asserting that monuments are elements that preserve legends when they take on certain ritual forms. The monument is also a fundamental work that helps us to understand Rossi’s first projects relating to "realism", a category that focuses debate on the nature of architecture in post-Second-World-War Italy and on Rossi’s role as an architect in that period.

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/bac.2020.10.0

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• The Oblique Function through domestic ritual Inhabiting the utopia of instability

  Maria Pura Moreno Moreno

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  The theory of the Oblique Function, created by the Architecture Principe group, questioned the horizontal stability of the ground, proposing to merge habitation and moving around, using the “inclisite” module. This article addresses the transposition of its foundations -more elaborate in territorial and urban areas- into domestic architecture, through four unbuilt projects with an oblique spatial habitability: the Maison Mariotti (1966), Maison Woog (1966-1968), Maison Toueg (1969-1970), and the prototype to inhabit, “Instabilisateur pendulaire IP” (1968). Their joint analysis seeks to recognize the intensity brought to the theory by the symbiosis between envelopes, complemented by factors such as tilting, gravity or mechanisms such as espace pincé. The aim will be to assess whether that legacy has materialized in contemporary architecture that highlights aspects such as fluidity, continuity and instability, and whether this transposition has meant scaling up at the cost of the domestic aspect, which is still awaiting true experimentation.

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/bac.2020.10.0

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• Rites and landmarks in a hydrologial community in the Rosal Valley

  Ángeles Santos Vázquez Henrique Seoane Prado Carlos Martínez-González

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  In certain specific unstable and complex environments, a community is capable of putting aside competitive dynamics and managing scarce and renewable resources for the common good. It is precisely these communities-capable of uniting resources and making good use of them-that have the most chance of successfully making spaces habitable that, otherwise would be difficult to achieve.
  A case study of a small valley in Galicia-surely extendable to many others-makes clear the importance of rituals which occur with reference to water as mediators between competition and co-operation.
  The complex community management of this scarce resource, its proportional and equitable distribution with scarcely any disruption of the natural water cycle, requires small rituals to take place throughout the dry season which enable and reinforce, and this is very important, this co-operation.

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/bac.2020.10.0

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• Rituals of freedom: Discipline and biopolitics in educational architecture

  Jorge León Casero José María Castejón Esteban

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  According to Michel Foucault and Peter Sloterdijk, architecture is a set of techniques and material devices whose objective is to produce domesticated subjects according to a specific type of power. The architecture of disciplinary power aims to produce homogeneous individuals in accordance with an ideal norm defined a priori through linear and univocal spatial rituals. Instead, the architecture of biopolitical power uses the interconnection of spaces and programmatic indeterminacy with the aim of making people’s freedom work as a means of productive self-domestication. Given that educational architecture is one of the main architectural categories involved in the production of subjects, we analyze three paradigmatic projects —Sant’Elia school by Giuseppe Terragni, Aldo Rossi school in Broni and OMA’s McCormick Tribune Campus Center— which show how architecture ritualizes the behavior of its users.

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/bac.2020.10.0

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Book reviews

• Lucién Hervé. España blanca y España negra

  Antonio Santiago Río Vázquez

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  Book Review: Lucién Hervé. España blanca y España negra, Iñaqui Bergera (2019)

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/bac.2020.10.0

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• Epics in the Everyday. Photography, Architecture, and the Problem of Realism

  Iñaki Bergera Serrano

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  Book Review: Epics in the Everyday: Photography, Architecture, and the Problem of Realism, Jesús Vassallo (2020)

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/bac.2020.10.0

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