Entre la expresión y el tipo: James Stirling en los cincuenta
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Silva Hernández-Gil, José María
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Los años cincuenta representan la etapa de
maduración de James Stirling, el tiempo en
que, frente al incipiente cisma de la arquitectura
moderna, desarrolló una sólida posición
intelectual que se formalizaría en su obra posterior.
Este artículo profundiza en esta postura
que, cimentada en la necesidad de reintegrar
modernidad e historia, pretende revitalizar la
arquitectura a partir de dos cuestiones críticas:
la expresión y la forma. La primera, ofreciendo
una alternativa al problema estilístico contemporáneo
por medio de la expresión de la
función, entendida ésta como la idea central
de la modernidad. Y la segunda, por medio
del empleo instrumental de la abstracción
de dicha forma, el tipo, redescubriendo la
capacidad significante de éste y, por tanto, el
potencial comunicativo de valores modernos
extraídos de cualquier época. El repaso cronológico
de algunos de sus proyectos, escritos
críticos y referencias relevantes de su formación,
permite entender el progresivo diálogo
entre estas dos ideas, una persistente y la otra
en evolución, hasta 1959, año en que con el
escrito “The functional tradition and expression”
y el proyecto para el Churchill College,
alcanza la integración de método y estética que
daría lugar a su arquitectura posterior.
The fifties represent the period when James Stirling matured, the time when he confronted the recent schism of modern architecture and developed a solid intellectual position which would take shape in his later work. This article deepens in this attitude which, cemented in the necessary reintegration of modernity and history, pretends to reinvigorate architecture from two critic concepts: expression and form. The first one, offering an alternative to the stylistic problem of contemporary architecture through the expression of function, this understood as the central idea of modernism. And the second, through the instrumental use of its abstraction, type, rediscovering form’s signifying potential and, therefore, its ability to convey the values of modernism, present in any era. The chronological review of some of his projects, theoretical writings and relevant references from his education describes the progressive dialogue between these two concepts, one firm and the other in constant evolution, up to 1959, the year when he writes “The Functional Tradition and Expression” and designs the Churchill College, when the integration of method and aesthetics is achieved establishing the basis for his subsequent architecture.
The fifties represent the period when James Stirling matured, the time when he confronted the recent schism of modern architecture and developed a solid intellectual position which would take shape in his later work. This article deepens in this attitude which, cemented in the necessary reintegration of modernity and history, pretends to reinvigorate architecture from two critic concepts: expression and form. The first one, offering an alternative to the stylistic problem of contemporary architecture through the expression of function, this understood as the central idea of modernism. And the second, through the instrumental use of its abstraction, type, rediscovering form’s signifying potential and, therefore, its ability to convey the values of modernism, present in any era. The chronological review of some of his projects, theoretical writings and relevant references from his education describes the progressive dialogue between these two concepts, one firm and the other in constant evolution, up to 1959, the year when he writes “The Functional Tradition and Expression” and designs the Churchill College, when the integration of method and aesthetics is achieved establishing the basis for his subsequent architecture.
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Silva Hernández-Gil, J. M. (2015). Entre la expresión y el tipo: James Stirling en los cincuenta. REIA: Revista Europea de Investigación en Arquitectura, (3), 165-182. http://reia.es/REIA310SHG.pdf



