Eloquent Silences - Writings on Art and Architecture

It is a form of spiritual revolt that Spanish architect Carlos Mart Ars highlights through a transversal analysis of different artistic expressions that combine to enrich his reflection. Jorge Luis Borges, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Yasushiro Ozu, Mark Rothko, Jorge Oteiza - a writer, an architect, a filmmaker, a painter, a sculptor. Five personalities of the 20th century separated by their mediums, their subjects of investigation and their disciplines. They are brought together in this book by the need to save art from its current alteration, and to bring it back to a more contemplative and introspective dimension. It is a form of spiritual revolt that Carlos Mart Ars highlights through this transversal analysis of different artistic expressions that mix and meet to enrich his reflection. The key words of this consideration, which has the appearance of a manifesto, are: silence, contemplation, renunciation, transparency, anonymity and atemporality. Twenty years later, the lesson of Carlos Mart Ar is contemporary and of fundamental importance for our discipline today. Carlos Mart Ars (Barcelona, 1948-Barcelona 2020) was an architect and full professor at the Departamento de Proyectos Arquitectnicos of the Universitat Politcnica de Catalunya (UPC). Graduated in 1972 from the Escuela Tcnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB), his real school was the editorial office of 2c Construccin de la ciudad, of which he was a founding member and deputy editor from 1972 to 1985. 2c Construccin de la ciudad was a magazine in line with Italian culture (La Tendenza) which had succeeded in bringing architecture and the city closer together. Still at ETSAB, he obtained his doctorate in 1988 with a thesis, which became a book entitled Las Variaciones de la identidad. Ensayo sobre el tipo en arquitectura (Milan 1990, Barcelona 1993 and 2014, Paris 2020, FAD Pensamiento y Crtica 2015 Award), the discourse of which leads from type as the foundation of architecture to typological process as a design method. He has developedoften in parallel and coherent with his professional activitya vast theoretical reflection, through numerous articles and conferences. He is the author of several books including Las Formas de la residencia en la ciudad moderna (Barcelona 1991); Santiago de Compostela. La Ciudad histrica como presente (Barcelona 1995); Silencios elocuentes (Barcelona 1999, Milan 2002, Paris 2019/2020); La Cimbra y el arco (Barcelona 2005, Milan 2007); La Arquitectura del cine. Estudios sobre Dreyer, Hitchcock, Ford y Ozu (Barcelona 2008, FAD Pensamiento y Crtica Award 2009); Cabos sueltos (Barcelona 2012, finalist of Pensamiento y Crtica 2009). He has also promoted editorial initiatives such as the Arquitectura / Teora series of Serbal editions, the Arqutesis series of the Fundacin Caja de Arquitectos and the magazine DPA Departamento de Proyectos de Arquitectura o