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Casa C+G
Location: Sant Vicenç de Montalt
Architect: Josep Llobet
Collaborators: Ana Roque, Marcilio Sabino, Natalia Ojeda, Lai Hung Hauan, Alice Mioni, Marta Sánchez, Alessandra Varonier and Laura Bonell.
Date: 2009
Surface: 686.27m2 + 2000m2
Photos: Jaume Prat Ortells
Web: www.josepllobet.com

This project has been published on Quaderns #264 Anuari. With this issue we are recovering the old yearbook format that, firstly, enables us to compile and expand in a coherent manner the information featured in Observatory, a regular section in Quaderns in both its printed and digital formats, and secondly, reaffirms the desire to establish connections between the history of the magazine itself and a contemporary re-reading of it.

In Quaderns #264, we retrieve the yearbooks published regularly in the magazine between 1969 and 1979, with a selection of over 50 works, projects and more.

“Coinciding with the celebration in Barcelona of the ICSID Assembly and the International Design Congress held in Ibiza, this special number of the magazine Cuadernos, published in collaboration with ADIIFAD [organizing body of the Congress] is dedicated to Industrial Design. The magazine has contributions of several international and well known designers of the current moment.

In 1971, the ICSID Congress was held at Cala de Sant Miquel, a bay on the north-west coast of Eivissa, away from the usual urban venues. In the context of Franco’s dictatorship, dominated by repression, censorship and lack of freedom, Eivissa was still a relatively unspoilt environment, sparsely urbanised. Thanks to the intellectuals and artists who had settled there since the thirties (Hausmann, Benjamin or the architects from GATCPAC), avant-garde and transgression coexisted with a rural culture, very tolerant of visitors and capable of reconciling opposing aesthetic and social tendencies.”

First published in: ”Cuadernos de Arquitectura y Urbanismo Any: 1971 Núm.: 81 [ICSID 1971 Ibiza I]”

You can read the pdf here: Cuadernos de Arquitectura y Urbanismo Any: 1971 Núm.: 81

At this time, it is important to highlight the importance of revisiting events like this. As we can see in the letter of the “Ad Hoc Committee”, written by José Miguel de Prada Poole that collaborative practices are not something new, although the presence of the financial crisis and the lack of public resources has had as a reaction a revival of citizen initiatives that seek to improve their immediate environment.

For this reason we see a revival of these actions and social movements as present and active in events such as the Venice Biennale or the design Biennale, Istanbul, where one of the topics is adhocracy.

More information about the exhibition Utopia is Possible which is at MACBA from June 21 to January 20, 2013.

The building responds to the determinants imposed by the extraordinary slope field and the typical landscape of the Costa Brava. With these constraints, Bosch Aymerich wanted to do something organically and at the same time, characterized for its formal aspect.

In order to leave the most possible natural space for use as a spontaneous garden, the area in support of the construction, making a dent in the same slope, whose configuration remains virtually intact and reduced to a minimum.

First published on: ”Anuari de Quaderns 1970-1 p.41”

You can read the PDF here: Quaderns 1970-1

From this approach, our proposal —subsidized by the organizing c ofommittee Hogarotel 10—  was intended as an instrument itself only of causing the release of the ludicrous desires, which we thought is one of the most repressed issues by current domestic equipment —more ‘ representative’ that suited to everyday use—.  And, consequently, it was developed by an unusual atmosphere, but with certain significant references which incited to lead a ludicrous behavior but without suggesting any established social patterns of behaviour.

First published on: ”Anuari de Quaderns 1971-2 nº85 p.126”

You can read the PDF here:  Quaderns 1971-2 nº85

First published: ”Anuari de Quaderns 1974-1 nº103 p.31”

You can read the PDF here: Quaderns 1974-1 nº103

Contributors: Oscar Tusquets, architect, and Anna Bohigas.

You can read thepdf [Spanish] here: QUADERNS ANUARIS Núm 103 Anuario 1974-I