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Confluences

Jose Antonio Sosa, Magu.i Gonzalez, Miguel Santiago, Evelyn Alonso


  • Silvana
This book explores the work of a loose constellation of four Spanish architects based in the Canary Islands: José Antonio Sosa, Magüi Gonzalez, Miguel Santiago and Evelyn Alonso. They are committed to thoughtful, lasting design, and their work is bold in its modesty.

ISBN 9788836630189 | E | HB
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Publisher Silvana
ISBN 9788836630189
Publication date April 2015
Edition Hardback
Dimensions 280 x 230 mm
Illustrations 80 col.ill.
Pages 144
Language(s) Eng. ed.
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"We are what our environment makes us," said architect Rudolf Schindler in 1963, "and if our environment is such as to produce excellent health, beauty, joy, and comfort, it will reflect immediately in our lives."
It is easy to agree with Schindler, of course. Architecture is itself an environment, and the best architecture embraces and supports its surroundings. This book explores the work of a loose constellation of four Spanish architects based in the Canary Islands: José Antonio Sosa, Magüi Gonzalez, Miguel Santiago and Evelyn Alonso. They are committed to thoughtful, lasting design, and their work is bold in its modesty. They have the unusual experience of years of work on their own and with each other in various collaborative combinations - pairs, trios, or all together. Some of their collaborative relationships go back decades; others are relatively new. Architects, they have said, are catalysts of a way of being, a way of acting, a way of living in a particular moment. Architecture rooted with integrity in its setting, they argue, is the only architecture with a chance of enduring.