Leon Krier and the Atlantis of Tenerife: An International Academy for Visual and Spiritual Research
“Sundays Book” is presented by Carmelo de huge studiowhere he delves into forgotten architecture publications, books and architecture magazines from the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s, which have the most interesting stories behind them.
After a hiatus during 2022, he came back with chapter 19 titled “Forever Young”, telling the story of Ettore Sottsass Jr; chapter 20″Nobody is a prophet in their own land“, a tribute to the recently deceased master of architecture Ricardo Bofill; and divided into two chapters, “Only the best products go to the museum”, dedicated to the North American “architects” of SITE, James Wines, Alison Sky and Michelle Stone, investigating on how they brought BEST stores to the pinnacle of art Y how they turned architecture exhibitions on Buildings and Spaces.
Now, he brings us chapter 23 dedicated to the October 6, 1987 issue of BASA, the extinct magazine of the Official College of Architects of the Canary Islands. It tells how the German art dealer Hans Jürgen Müller trusts Leon Krier to design his dream of building an Atlantis in Tenerife, an international vacation academy for contemporary visual and spiritual research. It was never built but became a traveling exhibition of a project that had several versions and evolutions.
In the previous chapters, we have already seen the book by José Miguel de Prada Poole “The Sources of Space“, edited by the COAM in 1977, where it is argued that objective reality is unattainable, since it is limited by our sensory perception and the barriers of experimental science; we have also found the exhibition catalog “Houses For Sale” edited by Rizzoli and BJ Archer in 1980. In it, through Leo Castelli’s gallery, you could buy the projects of 8 houses by renowned architects (Emilio Ambasz, Peter Eisenman, Vittorio Gregotti, Arata Isozaki, Charles Moore, Cesar Pelli, Cedric Price, Oswald M. Ungers) turning the relationship “client commissions an architect with the House of his Dreams”. We have also seen the double issue 181/182 of the Catalan magazine QUADERNS from 1989 and specifically of a unfinished house of Paco Alonso, an architect from the School of Madrid who never finished any of his works and whom some professional colleague called “the ruin builder“; adding in other editions to “The Curve Marilyn Monroe“, about the monograph of the Japanese architect Arata Isozaki edited by Rizzoli and his obsession with Marilyn Monroe (to the point of reproducing the geometry of her body in several of his buildings).
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