El Croquis Blog

Article written by Josep María Montaner in 1987, originally published in El Croquis N. 30 Miralles Pinós, recently digitized. Only available in Spanish.

Johnston Marklee recognize that in this era of super-saturated image production, not only do we view architectural history through the veil of representation, buildings themselves are fated to live through images and reproductions. There is a complex web of associations here, as if architecture’s signifying mechanisms have become temporarily unmoored from time and place. 

By Alejandro Zaera Polo

We have started this process with the recovery of numbers 53 and 79, dedicated to the trajectory of OMA / Rem Koolhaas between 1987 and 1996. 

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