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Author(s) -
Montaner Josep Maria
Publication year - 2007
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.524
Subject(s) - minimalism (technical communication) , garcia , architecture , flexibility (engineering) , order (exchange) , architectural engineering , apartment , humanities , art history , history , computer science , political science , law , art , engineering , archaeology , management , business , finance , human–computer interaction , economics
Josep Maria Montaner describes four buildings that epitomise the flexibility of the Rationalist tendency in Spain. These span the Mies‐inspired minimalism of Javier Garcia Solera; housing schemes that are designed around the present needs of their occupants for adaptable and well‐ventilated spaces, despite being influenced by earlier Rationalist vocabularies; and Carlos Ferrater's JC Decaux Headquarters in Madrid that uses ‘the order and tradition’ of Modernist architecture to create continuity with existing buildings on its site. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.