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6 Conceptual Architectures

Production, design and coordination of Alfons Soldevila´s exhibition at ETSAB

I ran into Alfons Soldevila (Badalona, 1938) in the library of the Col.legi d´Arquitectes de Barcelona and he told me about this upcoming exhibition he was having at ETSAB about his more experimental work. Alfons, who is besides an architect, an inventor too, was my PRA2 thesis supervisor and the builder of the Translucent House where I made a video installation in 2002 while in my second year of architecture.

So very naturally we started meeting to talk about the exhibition, and since he had no one to work for this show, he hired me to help him put it together.


I ended up designing all the graphic material in the show and the signage besides coordinating the exhibition. I also came up with the title, wrote the introduction and one of the texts in the show -- the 5th block "Architecture with added value."


It is up until June 24th 2024


Project Gallery

Idée Fixe  is a Transdisciplinary Studio of Art and Architecture, run by Cristina Guadalupe Galván.

If in a website you normally find finished objects and products to share, what we are sharing here are more ideas – tested, developed and lived -- and their processes, that in many instances ended up happily physical. The creative process is about experimentation and the life that goes with it. The life and the people.

While building this site I came across a quote that explained it to me much better, by architects Josep Ferrando & Marta Poch, for their Quaderns d´Arquitectura, issue 273, THE THINKING TRADE:

      In a world dominated by images of the finished object and the immediacy of access to multimedia content, this issue of Quaderns sets out to reflect on the role of the architect –by means of their working processes, of the working methods (…) leaving the image of the built project on the background.

For artist Sol LeWitt, the process was also the work:

      The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. (...) It is the process of conception and realization with which the artist is concerned. 

Architect Josep Maria Sostres said something similar:

      The project, obviously as a mental conception, as a will to form, has a sovereignty, it has an internal power that must be imposed.

So this archive-website of Idee-Fixe, records more these ideas, processes and in many instances the collaborations that made them possible.

It´s about THE LIFE OF IDEAS.

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