FOLDING ARCHITECTURE FOR AN ASTONISHING DECADE Emilio Pérez Piñero and the Architecture of the Sixties
The article reviews the work of Emilio Pérez Piñero, a designer of unfolding structures and geodesic domes, who leaped directly from isolated, impoverished Spain to the international forefront of technological development and died tragically a few years after. The paper describes the main aspects as...
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| Language: | Spanish |
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Universitat Politècnica de València
2011-03-01
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| Series: | EGA |
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| Online Access: | https://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/EGA/article/view/888 |
| Summary: | The article reviews the work of Emilio Pérez Piñero, a designer of unfolding structures and geodesic domes, who leaped directly from isolated, impoverished Spain to the international forefront of technological development and died tragically a few years after. The paper describes the main aspects aspects of Piñero's work and explains how his foldable, movable structures embody some key issues of the architecture of the nineteen-sixties, anticipating a number of proposals by Rayner Banham, Ron Herron or Peter Cook. |
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| ISSN: | 1133-6137 2254-6103 |