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This book is a tribute to the first modern urban planner and his product: the Eixample, which is today the thriving and undisputed center of the Barcelona metropolitan area.
The city of Barcelona as constructed over the last 150 years on the strength of Ildefons Cerdà's 1859 'Project for the Reform and Expansion' bears living witness to the modernity of a way of thinking and making the city.
An appreciaton of the values of the Eixample that have taken shape in the last century and a half affords illuminating insights into what it means to plan, design and build a city. The chapter structure is devoted to an orderly analysis in the first instance of the elements that articulate the construction of the Eixample -- the residential fabric, the grid, the street, the chamfered corner and the sewers -- and then of the city blocks and the various configurations associated with housing, industry, amenities and open spaces.
The book intentionally focuses on the Eixample as a whole -- what we know as the Cerdà Eixample -- instead of confining itself to the more central Eixample traditionally associated with Modernista architecture.
Author: Francesc Magrinya
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Actar
Published: 06/26/2017
Pages: 320
Weight: 2.7lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.90w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781945150357
English Edition
About the Author
Marzaa, Fernando: - Fernando Marzá is an architect; he was the deputy of the Spanish Pavilion at 2010 Venecia's Biennale and, currently, is a professor at the ETSAV.Magrinya, Francesc: - Frances Magrinya is a civil engineer and urbanism's PhD from the University Paris l-Sorbonne, currently urbanism professor at the Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya.
The city of Barcelona as constructed over the last 150 years on the strength of Ildefons Cerdà's 1859 'Project for the Reform and Expansion' bears living witness to the modernity of a way of thinking and making the city.
An appreciaton of the values of the Eixample that have taken shape in the last century and a half affords illuminating insights into what it means to plan, design and build a city. The chapter structure is devoted to an orderly analysis in the first instance of the elements that articulate the construction of the Eixample -- the residential fabric, the grid, the street, the chamfered corner and the sewers -- and then of the city blocks and the various configurations associated with housing, industry, amenities and open spaces.
The book intentionally focuses on the Eixample as a whole -- what we know as the Cerdà Eixample -- instead of confining itself to the more central Eixample traditionally associated with Modernista architecture.
Author: Francesc Magrinya
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Actar
Published: 06/26/2017
Pages: 320
Weight: 2.7lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.90w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781945150357
English Edition
About the Author
Marzaa, Fernando: - Fernando Marzá is an architect; he was the deputy of the Spanish Pavilion at 2010 Venecia's Biennale and, currently, is a professor at the ETSAV.Magrinya, Francesc: - Frances Magrinya is a civil engineer and urbanism's PhD from the University Paris l-Sorbonne, currently urbanism professor at the Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya.
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