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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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-7d22c6c508bc4f5ba128250c1807ca492022-12-21T21:18:06ZspaUniversitat Politècnica de ValènciaEGA1133-61372254-61032011-03-01161711412710.4995/ega.2011.888858FOLDING ARCHITECTURE FOR AN ASTONISHING DECADE Emilio Pérez Piñero and the Architecture of the SixtiesJosé Calvo LópezJuan Pedro Sanz AlarcónThe 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.https://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/EGA/article/view/888emilio pérez piñerocúpulas geodésicasestructuras desplegablesestructuras transportablesrayner banhampeter cookron herronarchigram |
| spellingShingle | José Calvo López Juan Pedro Sanz Alarcón FOLDING ARCHITECTURE FOR AN ASTONISHING DECADE Emilio Pérez Piñero and the Architecture of the Sixties EGA emilio pérez piñero cúpulas geodésicas estructuras desplegables estructuras transportables rayner banham peter cook ron herron archigram |
| title | FOLDING ARCHITECTURE FOR AN ASTONISHING DECADE Emilio Pérez Piñero and the Architecture of the Sixties |
| title_full | FOLDING ARCHITECTURE FOR AN ASTONISHING DECADE Emilio Pérez Piñero and the Architecture of the Sixties |
| title_fullStr | FOLDING ARCHITECTURE FOR AN ASTONISHING DECADE Emilio Pérez Piñero and the Architecture of the Sixties |
| title_full_unstemmed | FOLDING ARCHITECTURE FOR AN ASTONISHING DECADE Emilio Pérez Piñero and the Architecture of the Sixties |
| title_short | FOLDING ARCHITECTURE FOR AN ASTONISHING DECADE Emilio Pérez Piñero and the Architecture of the Sixties |
| title_sort | folding architecture for an astonishing decade emilio perez pinero and the architecture of the sixties |
| topic | emilio pérez piñero cúpulas geodésicas estructuras desplegables estructuras transportables rayner banham peter cook ron herron archigram |
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