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DENTRO DE SUS CASAS. MIGUEL FISAC (2018)
YOLANDA CÓNSUL PASCUAL
MADRID, 2018
Publisher: Diseño Editorial
Edited By: Yolanda Cónsul Pascual
Building: Softback
Language: Spanish
Pages: 144
Miguel Fisac, the architect of concrete, of the great works, what does he do when faced with domestic architecture? And when you design your own house, do you experiment? Consolidate? Does your concept of architecture have a place when the family enters the debate? How far does the teacher's involvement in design go? These and many other questions were what led to the development of an investigation around a series on the Masters of Spanish Architecture that culminated in a doctoral thesis read at the Higher Technical School of Architecture in Madrid in February 2015 and from which we have extracted this book, referring to Miguel Fisac's house on Cerro del Aire in Madrid (Spain). Perhaps the publications have turned more attention to the most institutional, most public work of the master, leaving aside the research and evolution in the single-family housing projects that Miguel Fisac professionally developed. The Cerro del Aire house has sparked a discreet interest in the architect's work and there has rarely been talk of that "humanized air" that for Fisac was architecture taking his own house as the axis of the discourse. From this book we want to talk about the interior, protected space, the architecture that welcomes and allows the development of family life beyond the walls that define the house.
Miguel Fisac is the most important and internationally recognized Spanish architect of the second half of the twentieth century. His work is of most significance when considering the modern architectural movement in Spain of the said period. As Fisac's work becomes more recognized, his role in understanding the modern architectural movement in Spain has become increasingly apparent. His work is fundamental and the most coherent of his era.
Fisac came from the Manchego rural environment of Daimiel (Royal City), born in 1913. He traveled from a young age, accumulating a broad view of the European, Nordic, and American avant-gardes and the Far East and North Africa. His unassuming architecture reflects this universal education, where constructive invention joins rationality in approach and an expressive intuition dominated by space versus form.
Fisac's work encompasses buildings, urbanism, furniture and object creation, industrial design, and painting. In the four decades, from the beginning of the forties till the eighties, he produced his most acclaimed works, which are grouped into stages: firstly in 1942, he worked in the style of abstract classicism, which in the fifties modernized towards an organicism dominated by the presence of brick, a material practically abandoned to concrete. He used walls structurally, the invention of prefabricated concrete textures with flexible frameworks, a theme that directed his work in the late 1980s.
He continued working through till his death in 2006, but more sporadically, conjoining new architecture with rehabilitation, writing, and conferences and exhibitions about his work activities. In 1994 he won the Gold Medal for Architecture, and in 2003 won the National Architecture Prize.
