BIG Paredes/Pedrosa REX Ferrater MVRDV Fujimoto deLucio UNStudio Delugan/Meissl Bonell/Gil Ito Kerez Lacaton/Vassal SANAA Mangado Grafton Hopkins Benson/Forsyth McAslan/Nord OMA Mecanoo SeARCH Holl

Bibliotecas/Libraries Astana Córdoba Kortrijk Vila-real Parlamento/Parliament Lausanne Ayuntamiento/City Hall Escuela School Glasgow Híbrido/Hybrid Shenzhen argumento argument 4 BIG ( Group) Biblioteca Nacional National Library, Astana 6 Sou Fujimoto Biblioteca y museo universitario University Library and Museum, Musashino 8 REX (Joshua Prince-Ramus) Biblioteca Central Central Library, Kortrijk 10 MVRDV Biblioteca Library, Spijkenisse 12 OAB (Ferrater, Peñín, Gimeno) Biblioteca municipal Municipal Library, Vila-real 14 Paredes & Pedrosa Biblioteca pública Public Library, Córdoba Director Editor Luis Fernández-Galiano bocetos beginnings Director de arte Art Director 18 Toyo Ito José Jaime S. Yuste Museo de arquitectura Architecture Museum, Imabari Diagramación / redacción Layout / Editorial 20 UNStudio Cuca Flores Palacio de danza Dance Palace, St. Petersburg Beatriz G. Casares 22 Delugan Meissl Covadonga Lorenzo Nueva sede funeraria New Headquarters of the Funeral Parlor, Vienna Magda Anglès 24 Bonell & Gil María Cifuentes Parlamento Parliament, Lausanne Luis Játiva 26 Alberto Martín de Lucio Beatriz G. Lazo Piscina y centro deportivo Swimming pool and Sports Center, San Agustín de Guadalix Álex S. Ollero Leticia Olalquiaga Coordinación editorial Coordination concursos competitions Laura Mulas 30 Centro administrativo Holcim Holcim Competence Center, Holderbank Producción Production Christian Kerez Laura González Lacaton & Vassal Jesús Pascual SANAA (Sejima & Nishizawa) Administración Administration 38 Escuela de arte de Glasgow Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow Francisco Soler Steven Holl / JM Architects Suscripciones Subscriptions Francisco Mangado / ZM architecture Lola González Distribución Distribution Grafton Mar Rodríguez Hopkins architects Raquel Vázquez McAslan / NORD Publicidad Advertising Benson & Forsyth Susana Blanco Elder & Cannon Cecilia Rodríguez 52 Ampliación del Ayuntamiento City Hall Extension, Rotterdam OMA Editor Publisher Mecanoo Arquitectura Viva SL Claus en Kaan Aniceto Marinas, 32 Meyer & Van Schooten / Fritz Architecture E-28008 Madrid SeARCH / Christian Müller Architects Tel (+34) 915 487 317 Fax (+34) 915 488 191 detalles details [email protected] 64 Steven Holl www.ArquitecturaViva.com Vanke Center, Shenzhen Precio en España 10euros © Arquitectura Viva exposiciones exhibitions Depósito legal Legal registration: 84 Norman Foster M-10229-2004 ‘Drawings 1958-2008’, Ivorypress Art + Books ISSN: 1697-493X Impresión Printing: Preim Degrade 88 Charles Darwin ‘Endless forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts’, Fitzwilliam Museum fotografía focus Esta revista ha recibido una ayuda de la Dirección General del Libro, Archivos y Bibliotecas del Ministerio de Cultura para su 92 Zoe Strauss difusión en bibliotecas, centros culturales y universidades de España, para la totalidad de los números del año. ‘Hola, ¿cómo estás?’ ‘Hello, how are you?’, La Casa Encendida 034 2009 argumento argument Illiad, Kindle, Sony Reader… Puede que Illiad, Kindle, Sony Reader… Maybe aún no estemos familiarizados con esta we are still not familiarized with these terminología, pero es más que probable terms but it is more than probable que en pocos años nos encontremos de that in a few years we will find ourselves viaje en compañía de uno de estos on a trip in the company of one of ‘libros’ electrónicos. El papel de las these electronic ‘books’. The role of bibliotecas en la sociedad actual se libraries in contemporary society is somete a revisión no sólo por la llegada under review not only because of de nuevos ingenios informáticos, sino the arrival of new computer devices, por la consolidación de la sociedad del but also because of the establishment of takeaway. Y es que el peregrinaje que the ‘takeaway’ society. Thus, it looks like nos llevaba del sofá a la biblioteca the pilgrimage that used to take us from parece haber llegado a su fin con un the couch to the library has come to an Biblioteca Nacional de Astana simple clic sobre el icono de descargas. end with a simple click on the download Astana National Library Socio responsable Partner in charge: Bjarke Ingels No se ve igual, no huele igual y desde icon. It does not look the same, it does Director de proyecto Project leader: Thomas luego no es igual al tacto. Tal vez la not smell the same and surely it does Christoffersen Colaboradores Collaborators: Amy Campbell, orfandad de deseo y fetichismo que not feel the same. Maybe the lack of Jakob Henke, Johan Cool, Jonas Barre, Daniel Sundlin padece un libro digital sea reemplazada desire and fetishism that electronic Consultores Consultants: ARUP AGU por la prontitud y la accesibilidad, pero books suffer will be replaced with Biblioteca y museo universitario University Library and Museum no cabe duda de que no será lo mismo immediacy and accessibility, but there Equipo Design team: Sou Fujimoto Architects leer a Nabokov sobre una pantalla is no doubt that it will not be the same to Consultores Consultants: Jun Sato (estructuras structural engineering); Kankyo Engineering Co. luminosa que sobre las páginas read Nabokov on a light screen than on (instalaciones mechanical engineering) desgastadas de un libro de siempre. Las the worn out pages of a traditional book. Biblioteca Central de Kortrijk Kortrijk Central Library propuestas que inyectan savia nueva a The designs that are now revitalizing the Arquitecto Architect: REX (Joshua Prince-Ramus) Colaboradores Collaborators: Lee Altman, las veteranas ‘bibliotecas de papel’ se old ‘paper libraries’ are presented here Haviland Argo, Gabrielle Brainard, Keith Burns, Alex Diez, Jeffrey Franklin, Javier Haddad, David presentan a continuación de la mano de through the proposals of BIG, Sou Menicovich, Joshua Prince-Ramus, Jacob Reidel BIG, Sou Fujimoto, REX, MVRDV, KSP, Fujimoto, REX, MVRDV, KSP, Carlos Biblioteca Library Carlos Ferrater y Paredes & Pedrosa. Ferrater and Paredes & Pedrosa. Socios Partners: Winy Maas, , Colaboradores Collaborators: Marc Joubert, Anet Schurink, Bart Spee, Jeroen Zuidgeest, Fokke Moerel, Stefan de Koning, Kai Kanafani, Lolita is narrated by Humbert Humbert, a literary scholar born in Ole Schröder 1910 in Paris, who is obsessed with what he refers to as "nymphets". Hum- bert suggests that this obsession results from his failure to consummate an Biblioteca municipal en Vila-real affair with a childhood sweetheart before her premature death. In 1947, Humbert moves to Ramsdale, a small New England town, to write. He rents Municipal Library in Vila-real a room in the house of Charlotte Haze, a widow, mainly for the purpose of Arquitectos Architects: OAB S.L. (Carlos Ferrater, being near Charlotte's 12-year-old daughter, Dolores (also known as Dolly, con Alberto Peñín, José Luis Gimeno) Lolita, Lola, Lo, and L), an archetypal nymphet. Colaboradores Collaborators: Ernesto Fabregat While Lolita is away at summer camp, Charlotte who has develo- (aparejador technical architect); BECSA S.L. ped a crush on Humbert, tells him that he must either marry her or move out. Humbert is at first horrified by this, as he considers Charlotte a silly, (empresa constructora building company); pretentious and vulgar woman, but he quickly agrees to marry her in order BUTECH S.A. (empresa colaboradora to continue living near Lolita. Charlotte is oblivious to Humbert's distaste for her and his lust for Lolita until she reads his diary. Upon learning of collaborating company) Humbert's true feelings, Charlotte is appalled: she makes plans to flee with Lolita and threatens to expose Humbert's perversions. But as she runs across Biblioteca pública en Córdoba the street in a state of shock, she is struck and killed by a passing motorist. Public Library in Córdoba Humbert, now widowed, picks Lolita up from camp, pretending that Arquitectos Architects: Ángela García de Paredes, Charlotte is ill and in a hospital. He takes Lolita to a hotel, where he meets Ignacio García Pedrosa a strange man (later revealed to be Clare Quilty), who seems to know who Colaboradores Collaborators: Álvaro Róbano, Álvaro Oliver, Clemens Eichner, Lucía Guadalajara, Cornelius Schmitz Colaboradores Collaborators: Luis Calvo (control técnico technical control); Alfonso G. Gaite —GOGAITE S.L.— (estructuras structural engineering) 034 2009 detalles details Proyectos como el Linked Hybrid de Projects like the Linked Hybrid in Beijing, Pekín, el Museo de Arte y Arquitectura the Museum of Art and Architecture de Nanjing o el Vanke Center de in Nanjing or the Vanke Center in Shenzhen, presentado a continuación, Shenzhen, presented in the following llevaron al estadounidense Steven Holl pages, encouraged the American Steven a abrir despacho en las lejanas tierras Holl to open a new office in the faraway del sol naciente. Secundado por su lands of the rising sun. Supported by socio Li Hu, encargado de la oficina de his partner Li Hu, in charge of the Pekín desde su apertura en 2006, uno Beijing studio since its opening in 2006, de los arquitectos americanos más one of the most prominent American destacados de las últimas décadas architects of the last decades reveals his muestra su lado más experimental most experimental profile during these en pleno auge chino. ¿Cuál es el effervescent times for China. What aspecto de un rascacielos horizontal? does a horizontal skyscraper look like? El Vanke Center da repuesta a esta The Vanke Center answers this question pregunta mediante una pieza ramificada through a branched piece that measures de longitud idéntica a la altura del in length the same as New York’s neoyorquino Empire State Building Empire State Building measures in (448m), una reinterpretacón icónica que height (448m), an iconic reinterpretation sobrevuela las riberas de la ciudad de that hovers over the coastline of the city Shenzhen. Con este proyecto para la of Shenzhen. With this project for the nueva sede de la empresa Vanke Co. new headquarters of the firm Vanke Ltd., uno de los gigantes inmobiliarios Co. Ltd., one of the real estate giants de la boyante economía china, Steven of the buoyant Chinese economy, Holl experimenta nuevamente con los Steven Holl experiments again with llamados edificios de usos múltiples tras the so-called mixed-use buildings after la puesta de largo del Linked Hybrid en the inauguration of the Linked Hybrid 2008 (véase Arquitectura Viva 118-119). in 2008 (see Arquitectura Viva 118-119).

Arquitecto Architect Steven Holl Architects Arquitecto local Local architect Cristina Fernández, Markus Lauber (Labb Arquitectura) Arquitecto técnico Technical architect Joan Ardèvol (J/T. Ardèvol i Associats) Consultores Consultants Miquel Angel Sala —BOMA— (estructuras structural engineering); Miguel Gasulla, Alfred Guitard —Einesa— (instalaciones mechanical engineering); Higini Arau —Arau Acústica— (acústica acoustics) Fotografías Photos Iwan Baan (pp. 68,70-73,75,77,78) Steven Holl Architects (pp. 74,76,81) 034 2009