Reajustando el paisaje de Robert Adams

Autores/as

  • Miguel Guitart Vilches Universidad de Zaragoza

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.201429343

Palabras clave:

Desurbanización, transformación del paisaje, redescubrimiento del paisaje, readaptación de no-espacios, orden tras el caos

Resumen

El propósito del presente artículo radica en la exploración de la búsqueda que realiza el fotógrafo norteamericano Robert Adams de la preservación de los paisajes en transformación del oeste americano en la década de los años 60. Dicha búsqueda tiene lugar en la relación entre su fotografía y el discurso pesimista originado por la desurbanización de las ciudades que sigue a la guerra fría y a la amenaza nuclear de esos años. Adams no escogió la fotografía de la belleza natural del estado de Colorado sino la documentación carente de ironía de un paisaje en transformación por la actividad del hombre. Podremos explorar la noción de orden tras el caos subyacente en el trabajo de Adams así como la visión del autor sobre cómo estos aparentes no-espacios son transformados en una nueva arquitectura mediante la intervención del hombre, desvelando de este modo el potencial de las conexiones entre el paisaje oriinal y el nuevo intruso. Los trabajos de Dorothea Lange, Edward Weston, Ed Ruscha, Robert Venturi y Edward Dimendberg serán de utilidad para adentrarnos en la posición de Adams en el discurso artístico de los años sesenta.

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Biografía del autor/a

Miguel Guitart Vilches, Universidad de Zaragoza

Miguel Guitart Vilches (Sevilla, 1973). Architect, designer, academic and writer from Madrid, Spain. He obtained his Ph.D. in Architecture Sum- ma Cum Laude in 2014 at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid ETSAM. He studied architecture at the ETSAM, obtaining his professional degree Cum Laude in 2000 and his Master’s Degree at the Graduate School of Design GSD at Harvard University, graduating in 2003 as a Fulbright Scholar. He has taught at EINA University of Zaragoza UNIZAR (Associate Professor 2013-), UPSAM University (Associate Professor 2006-2014), Boston Architectural Center (Teaching Fellow, 2002-2003), Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (Visiting Lecturer, 2013, 2012, 2010), Harvard University GSD (Visiting Critic, 2002) and ESNE-UCJC (Visiting Lecturer, 2011, 2012). Guitart has also lectured at the School of Architecture and Planning at the State University of New York at Buffalo SUNY B/a+p (2013), and at the School of Design and Construc- tion at Washington State University (2014).

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Publicado

2014-06-30

Cómo citar

Guitart Vilches, M. (2014). Reajustando el paisaje de Robert Adams. ZARCH. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture and Urbanism, (2), 186–197. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.201429343

Número

Núm. 2 (2014): Repensar, rehacer

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Miscelánea