DESIGN | ETSAM Library logo

The Architecture School Library where I actually work, was looking for a logo, so they prepared a competition where I was awarded with the second price and got the thick book  I'm holding in the picture. The book was not so interesting to me so they let me change it for an A+U monograph about Cecil Balmond,  a Monograph about Konstantin Melnikov and some other books.

Logitech Z-5500

Today I bought this magnificent 300€ sound system, I hope to have some money soon to buy a projector and start enjoying movies in a big screen.

AKIRA DVD Special Edition

I just received a superb edition of AKIRA on DVD, the 1989 anime film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo. This japanese gorgeous box set includes the film with English and Japanese audio tracks and English subtitles, a second disc with plenty of bonus material and a 800 page book with the complete storyboard of the film drawn by Otomo himself. This edition is out of stock but you can always check out the Amazon Japan Marketplace.

Some of the videos included in the bonus disc, explain the processes called Quick Action Recording, a technic used during production to check the animation.

DESIGN | Rafael Moneo lectures from 1995

DVD collection design for AAGRAFA from a series of lectures given by architect Rafael Moneo at Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid in the 3rd Biennial of Spanish Architecture that took place in 1995. 

Those are probably the DVD covers I'm most proud of, above all the ones I did all this years in AAGRAFA. This time we had to digitalize a bunch of old VHS tapes containing lectures given by Rafael Moneo at the III Biennial of Spanish Architecture in Círculo de Bellas Artes on 1995. Each of the lectures focused on a architect so I decided it would be cool to meld Moneo's face with each of the architects he was speaking about. If you really like architecture talks, all this six lectures are a are a must watch. Believe me, they are really, really interesting. Available now on ETSAM libary.  -Ioannes

III. Bienal  de Arquitectura española
Ciclo de conferencias en el círculo de Bellas artes
Principios diversos en seis arquitectos contemporaneos

DISC 1
Rafael Moneo: James stirling
1995-XI-14 / 110 min / Deposit number [V-808]

DISC 2
Rafael Moneo: Aldo Rossi
1995-XI-15 / 95 min / Deposit number [V-809]

DISC 3
Rafael Moneo: Peter Eisenman
1995-XI-16 / 118 min / Deposit number [V-810]

DISC 4
Rafael Moneo: Alvaro Siza
1995-XI-21/ 112 min / Deposit number [V-811]

DISC 5
Rafael Moneo: Frank Gehry
1995-XI-22 / 118 min / Deposit number [V-812]

DISC 6
Rafael Moneo: Rem Koolhass
1995-XI-23 / 121 min / Deposit number [V-813]

Vist the website: https://aaandnn.com/design/moneo/

Richard Rogers Box Set

The first time I learned about architect Richard Rogers' work was in my first year of college. I did a presentation work about Centre Pompidou building in Paris by architects Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers. I immediately got fascinated with the building and specially with the early seventies projects of those young architects.

There are various books collecting the works of Richard Rogers. I once borrowed from the school Library Richard Rogers+Architects a book published by Academy Editions in 1985. It was so used and deteriorated that I scan it to preserve it and try to restore it before bringing it back.

Another book I took home those days was Richard Rogers complete works volume 1 and volume 2. Both were thick hardcover books. Some years later a third volume was published and the three of them were collected as paperbacks in a fancy pink box. Now that this box is on sale in Amazon I just ordered it. 

Richard Rogers Complete Works - 3 Volume Set by Kenneth Powell

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Phaidon Press Inc / 960 pages / English
Publishing date: 2008.03.05
ISBN-10: 0714848662
ISBN-13: 978-0714848662