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CPA 6 CPA Dialogue, a critical space: Jean Badovici y technologies, teachers and lines of learning and by the Dialogue, a critical Eileen Gray rigorous methodology developed in all her practices. space 'The maison d'aujourd ' hui', 'L'Architecture utilitaire' architect and she taught her the rules of necessary4 and 'D 'eclectisme au doute' were three transcribed technicalJean Badovici drawing presented for introduction to Gray Adrienne into architecture. Gorska María Pura Moreno Moreno 1 Juan Pedro Sanz Alarcón dialogs that, although signed only by Jean Badovici, [F1] explanationsquestion architectural in the successive reflections replies. to the second voice artistsThanks and to her architects close relationship of her time withand learntthe Romanian from the - Eileen Gray - [F2] demanding based arguments or critic, Eileen Gray knew some of the most important partners, within their own architectural context and In this article, firstly, it will be presented the two works of her contemporaries. The closeness and the drawings,work of selection photographs for the and realization drawings of of a theperiodical projects withit will the underline instrument the workof the of periodical dissemination magazine of modern selectedpublication for allowedbroadcast. her The to have magazine first-hand L'Architecture access to architecture - mainly European- made by Jean Badovici Vivante, whose director was Badovivi, was her authentic institutionalization of modern architecture favored the source of information; from the texts and the projects exerciseL'Architecture of criticism, Vivante acquiring [F3]. The a avant-gardemore relevant art role. and Thethe published she learnt innovative concepts that later she architectural criticism’s origins are placed in the second reworked critically in her own theoretical and built Theory,half of the criticism, 18th century, and historiography where the neoclassical accompanied theorists the Formats:architectural Manifesto, work. essay and dialogue disclosureimbued by andthe spiritthe defense illustrated of a ruptureagainst late-baroque.architecture with multiples origins, but all of them based on an innovative abstraction away from any mimesis2. the public, mainly in the form of manifest. Its wording synthetic,The ideas ofand avant-garde even sometimes movements enumerated, were exposed allowed to to It will be exposed, below, the existing differences collect the wishes of a style in a vindicating, symbolic, and depersonalized way. the exhibition of the new thoughts associated with the among the three different literary figures chosen for 1.La segunda voz de estos diálogos es la arquitecta Eileen Gray ( 1878-1976). El formato favorece la alternancia de dos puntos de vista, uno más racional y científico asociado a la retórica vanguardista, y otro más inclinado hacia la forefront: the manifests, the essays and the dialogues. The Futurist manifesto of Tommaso Marinetti, that was sensibilidad. Constant Caroline. Eileen Gra y. Ed. Phaidon, Press Limited, the methodological advantages of the speech of two Londres 2000, pp.68-69. Once realized this contextualization, it will be highlight published in Le Figaro on 20 February 1909, or the tenets of Neoplastic’s Architecture enunciated by Theo 2. MONTANER, JOSEP MARÍA. Crítica. Gustavo Gili S.L. ed. Barcelona, conversation. , were a paradigmatic examples of these 2007. pp.8-9. voices generator of the critique, thanks to the opened texts.van Doesburg and5 published in France in L'Architecture Vivante in 1925 3. BADOVICI, JEAN (y Gray, Eileen). De L’Eclectisme au doute, L’Architecture Vivante, Ed.Albert Morancé, París, Otoño-Invierno, 1929. pp. 17-21. repeatedly exposed in these dialogues that reveal The manifestos had a closed character and served to 4. Adrienne Gorska era una arquitecta polaca, hermana la pintora Tamara de Finally, it will be discussed the architectural concepts formulate in a dogmatic way and unilateral nature a set Lempicka afincadas ambas en París. Conoce a Jean Badovici en la “Ecole texts suppose together an intense criticism exercise of common rules. Supérieure d’Architecture” y realiza su carrera como arquitecta y decoradora colaborando en proyectos con Robert Mallet –Stevens. Adam Peter. Eileen the specific concerns of theirs protagonists. All these - 144 Gray. Her life and Work, Ed Thames & Hudson, London 2009. p.88. realized from the same language. Eileen Gray's projects The Criticism exercise involves a personal judgment 5. Doesburg, Théo van. L’Évolution de l’architecture moderne en Hollande, towards some of the precepts of the Modern Movement L’Architecture Vivante, Ed.Albert Morancé, París, Otoño-Invierno, 1925. pp. route around doubts, perhaps unsolvables, is always 14-20 6. arauta, Francisco. Por un saber ensayístico en La transformación de la inclose the to concept these transcribed 'machine à habiterreflections' and - concerningreflection of the his based on a complex system of knowledge, where the conciencia moderna, Universidad de Murcia, pp 38. commandingthought - supposed utilitarianism, an alarm and call managed on the lacks to claim detected an is necessary to use another type of mechanism less rigid 6. JARAUTA, FRANCISCO. Por un saber ensayístico en La transformación de a sensitivity thannecessary. a manifest For that for reasonits exhibition, to exercise for example a good criticism the essay. it la conciencia moderna, Universidad de Murcia, pp 38. purified by the knowledge, enriched by the idea and not 'The essay thinks its object like off-center, hypothetical, 7. Paul Valéry escribe 'Eupalinos ó el arquitecto' en 1921 como introducción excludealternative the lookcompression that was and searching appreciation as aim of ' the scientific governed for an uncertain, blurry, indeterminate logic: its a un lujoso libro titulado 'Architecture' bajo la dirección de Louis Süe y 6 André Mare. El texto Valéry de forma dialogada introduce a los personajes achievements' . speech is always an approach' de Sócrates y Fedro, para hablar de Eupalinos un edificador de templos de Megara, cuyo destacado oficio es materia preciosa para el filósofo. 3 Jean Badovici versus Eileen Gray The personal essay is able to leave open a thought 8. BADOVICI, JEAN (y Gray, Eileen).Intérieurs de Süe et Mare, Albert Morancé, exposed in freedom. The absence of systematical París, 1924. p.7. character of this type of writing allows to include 9. CONSTANT, CAROLINE. Eileen Gray, Ed. Phaidon, Press Limited, Londres, 2000. p.199. Romanian architect trained at the École des Beaux Arts, inJean París, Badovici under (1893 the direction Bucharest of -Julian Monaco Guadet 1956) and was Jean an 10. BADOVICI, JEAN (y Gray, Eileen). Harmonies: Intérieurs de Ruhlmann, unfinisheds reasonings and unpublished comparisons Albert Morancé, París, 1924. p.6. Baptiste Paulin. He obtained his diploma at the École example of essay could be 'Vers une architecture', in whichthat favor Le Corbusier the knowledge. collects In the these writings sense, publisheda good in 11. BADOVICI, JEAN (y Gray, Eileen). Intérieurs français, Albert Morancé, París, 1925. p.5. wasSpéciale architectural d'Architecture criticism in 1919, associated together with with the colleagues publicise explains the decisions of his projects. 12. BADOVICI, JEAN (y Gray, Eileen). La Maison d’Aujourd’hui, Albert Morancé, París, 1925. pp.11-18. such as Robert Mallet Stevens. His most relevant activity L'Esprit Nouveau, and weaves the arguments with which 13. JANNIÈRE, HÉLÈNE: Les difficultés de la critique dans les années 1930: He edited the magazine L'Architecture Vivante since discours critique des revues et définitiorsn de l’architecture moderne. En Actas of projects of the Modern Movement, mainly European. to dialogue between architecture and engineer’s de V Congres national d’archéologie et d’histoire de l’art. Bordeaux, INHA The set of those texts subliminally reflected an invitation (Actas de colloques) 1999, URL: http://inha.revues.org/2344. journal Wendingen and in the prestigious magazine 1923, and he contributed with articles in the Dutch 14. VALÉRY, PAUL. Eupalinos o el arquitecto, trad de Mario Pani, FA/UNAM, aesthetic. However the dialectic was camouflaged in México, 1991. p.19. a closed system of explanatory statement, or the essay, Cahiers d'art, founded in 1926 by Christian Zervos. whichthe exhibition still being itself. an openFront system, of the manifesto, it manifests that itself it was with 15. BADOVICI, JEAN (y Gray, Eileen). L’Architecture Utilitarie, L’Architecture Vivante, Ed. Albert Morancé, París, Otoño-Invierno, 1926. pp. 17-24. He wrote books like Süe Interieurs et Mare (1924), Intérieurs Français (1925), and Grands Constructions: 16. BADOVICI, JEAN (y Gray, Eileen). De L’Eclectisme au doute, L’Architecture Vivante, Ed.Albert Morancé, París, Otoño-Invierno, 1929. pp. 17-21. withBeton modern Arme, Acier, architecture. Verre (1931), identifying for the first a single voice among the own reflections, Eileen Gray time in France, industrial and manufacturing buildings twoand Jeanprotagonists, Badovici invitingbets on the dialoguereader to provoked move away and from 17. BAJTÍN, MIJAIL. Estética de la creación verbal. Trad. De Tatiana Bubnova, Siglo XXI, México 1999, pp 352-353. Visto en Hernández Silvestre Manuel. twotranscribed, fronts, promoting that exposes one shamelessly vision of more the objective thinking thanof Dialoguismo y alteridad en Bajtín, en Contribuciones desde Coetepec, nº21, the referred arguments. julio-diciembre 2011, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México,