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Earthworks
Author(s) -
Mateo Josep Lluís
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1492
Subject(s) - earthworks , redevelopment , detritus , archaeology , geography , civil engineering , history , engineering , cartography , geology , paleontology
In historic towns and villages, topography layered by the detritus of previous structures mark out and continue to inform the identity and design of new buildings and streets. Spanish architect Josep Lluís Mateo describes two projects in his native Catalonia – one from the early 1980s for the redevelopment the medieval town of Ullastret, near Girona, and another from 2011 for a film theatre in Barcelona – that were influenced from the bottom up by the earth beneath his feet.