City context & culture revalued / [presented by] Miguel Angel Roca.

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Roca, Miguel Angel, narrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Spain.

City planning.

Architecture, Modern--20th century.

Architecture, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 audio file (29 minutes)).

Other Title:

City context and culture revalued

Place of Publication:

London, England: Pidgeon Digital, 1982.

Summary:

Miguel Roca, in 14 years of professional practice before 1982, produced over 100 projects, half of them built, the majority in his native Argentina, in the city of Cordoba where he teaches at the National University and where he is Secretary of Public Works for the City Council. For him, public space is the raw material and basic setting for the life of a city, as evidenced in his transformation of Cordoba. Hitherto a typical Spanish colonial town laid out on an orthogonal grid with central square, cathedral, town hall and river, the centre has been turned by Roca into shaded pedestrian malls, the historic buildings celebrated by projecting their shadows in marble onto the paving in front of them. He has converted the sluggish river into a formal park and he has made visual and physical links between the centre and other restyled urban features - squares, cultural centres, etc. He has given the city a language, an image, a coherence. The innovative quality of his architecture is equally striking, as can be seen in the branches he has built for the Bank of Cordoba.

Contents:

Miguel Angel Roca

Plaza De Armas, Cordoba, Argentina, 1979

Axonometric Plan Of Whole Pedestrian Area, Cordoba, 1979 - 1980

Marble Shadow In Pedestrian Mall, Monserrat, 1979

Pedestrian Mall, Rivera Indarte Lane, 1979 - 1980

Creeper Supports, Nueve De Julio Pedestrian Mall, 1979 - 1980

Plaza Espana, Cordoba, 1969. Aerial & Night Views

Paseo De Las Artes Cultural Centre, Cordoba, 1979 - 1980

San Vicente Market Community Centre, Cordoba, 1980

Cerro San Bernardo Housing, Salta, 1970

Senillosa Neuquen Low-Cost Housing, 1978

University Houses, Cordoba, 1971

Paseo Azul Shopping Centre, Cordoba, 1978

Bank Of Cordoba Province, Rio Tercero, City Branch, 1972

Bank Of Cordoba Province, Buenos Aires Branch, 1972.

Notes:

Title from publisher's website (viewed April 22, 2021).

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.