{"id":9403,"date":"2012-05-03T20:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T20:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasalavincon.com\/summa-arquitect-tonica-xavier-ferres-2012\/"},"modified":"2022-05-27T14:15:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T14:15:03","slug":"summa-arquitect-tonica-xavier-ferres-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasalavincon.com\/en\/summa-arquitect-tonica-xavier-ferres-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"285 – Xavier Ferr\u00e9s. Summa Arquitect Tonica (2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Summa Arquitect Tonica<\/h1>\n

Xavier Ferr\u00e9s<\/h2>\n

03\/05\/12. (Sala 285)<\/h3>\n

Everything is hand drawing…<\/p>\n

I never imagined that my drawings could be of interest outside the immediate, while they are being made, during the conversations I have collaborating with architects, with my studio mates or with my students.<\/p>\n

When Fernando Amat <\/b>proposed me to exhibit at La Sala Vin\u00e7on<\/b>, I accepted with more confidence in his criteria than in mine. I thought it was essential to draw live, as I usually do on the blackboards in schools and in work meetings. The doubts about what to exhibit and how to do it were solved with Rom\u00e0 Arranz<\/b> and Francesc Pl\u00e0<\/b>, art historian and architect, friends who have helped me to focus the criteria and select some of the available material.<\/p>\n

In this exhibition are exposed out of its usual context, a collection of collections of the result of my passion for drawing, in different registers, some serve to communicate ideas, others serve to support the basis of the technique, others have been published manuals and specialized magazines, most to make understandable the materialization of ideas, so drawing I can get to where the word does not reach.<\/p>\n

My notebooks and serial notebooks, numbered, with dates, indications and written in the margins, are the way to order through the drawing a discourse that supports the argumentation of the long road that is born in the world of ideas, architectural concepts, the definition of systems and that in the end are concretized in the constructive details. Many of the hand drawings integrate part of the knowledge of the construction technique, with what is supposed to be a certain ability to narrate it, because drawing well is not enough, hence the importance of both aspects. Mies Van de Rohe said: “If inspiration is the instant prior to creation, the constructive detail is what makes it possible” and I try to do it, for the ideas of others, every day.<\/p>\n

In the exhibition there are 12 banners and 24 cards plotted on tracing paper, 36 works in total, drawn by hand, several hundred sketches of works on which I have collaborated as a consultant. It is a way of explaining fundamental aspects of the construction technique and its envelopes that allows me to reflect on the process from idea to reality, while maintaining a constant learning and search. So much for the useful drawing. But this is not all.<\/p>\n

There is a very personal part of my work that I had never taught, and I do it with many reservations, are my black notebooks, almost 20 years of drawing in the same format, with mistakes and some success, I have never erased anything, I have never corrected anything, they are as they are. Hours and hours of dedication to a magnificent way of letting time run, calligraphies and gestures observing and talking with the landscape, with the spaces, with the objects and perhaps with the people.<\/p>\n

During the time the exhibition lasts, EURONIT<\/b> has scheduled some technical seminars for professionals, various activities related to teaching for the Escola Massana, Elisava <\/b>and the Master of Technology at the UPC,<\/b> there will also be some drawing classes … so the blackboards and the classroom that have been installed in La Sala Vin\u00e7on will make sense and will fit day by day.<\/p>\n

Xavier Ferr\u00e9s i Padr\u00f3<\/b><\/p>\n

Excerpts from the texts of the exhibition catalog<\/p>\n

“They are details of corners, corners from where the form is born; it unfolds at all scales in our head until it describes the form as a coherent whole. Their power comes from the density of knowledge they contain, their beauty from the immediacy with which they are traced. And Xavi Ferr\u00e9s is the master of the corner”.<\/p>\n

Ram\u00f3n Araujo<\/b> is Dr. Architect and Painter. Professor at ETSAM-UPM<\/p>\n

“Xavier Ferr\u00e9s’ teaching method could be said to be classic: drawing in situ on whatever and with whatever, explaining as he draws the processes, materials and techniques he intends to apply to build his most modern facades, his drawings have the clarity that only people who know their craft can achieve and the conciseness of those who know how to differentiate the essential from the secondary”<\/p>\n

Jaume Avellaneda <\/b>is Dr. Architect and Professor at the ETSAV-UPC.<\/p>\n

“And everything is recorded in his notebooks, travelogues through his professional life, a chronology of the evolution of lightweight enclosures in recent decades and perhaps the most personal legacy of Xavier’s work, witnesses of long sessions of intense productive creativity under the framework of certain figurative hypotheses, in search of formal and constructive rigor”.<\/p>\n

Eduard Gasc\u00f3n<\/b> is an architect and professor at ETSAB-UPC.<\/p>\n

“He solves the small print, the Manual of instructions to understand how to proceed with the building in question. Undoubtedly he must invent solutions, solve enigmas that the sculptor has not thought of, all so that the resulting work resembles the whimsical initial object\u201d.<\/p>\n

Manuel Huerga<\/b> is a film director.<\/p>\n

“This is an exhibition of risk, of drawings that are not intended as images to be exhibited publicly, but are represented architecture, drafts subject to a strict scope, “without concessions to the spectacle”, placed in a professional context. La Sala Vin\u00e7on, however, has opted for a different look, for a direct dialogue between architecture and spectator. The challenge is also for the graphics of Xavier Ferr\u00e9s. Disregarding the artistic aspect,<\/p>\n

the drawings take on an entity of their own, with a captivating communicative quality, the drawings take on an entity of their own, without virtuosity\u201d.<\/p>\n

Rom\u00e0 Arranz <\/b>is Dr. in History of Art and Professor at the Escola Massana.<\/p>\n

Xavier Ferr\u00e9s i Padr\u00f3,<\/b> Architect, Barcelona 1957<\/p>\n

He directs “Ferr\u00e9s arquitectos y consultores”, a studio specialized in design and technology of facade construction.<\/p>\n

He is Professor at the Escola Massana, academic coordinator of the Master’s degree in light fa\u00e7ade architecture at the University of the Basque Country in Donosti and Co-Director of the postgraduate course in architectural lighting at ELISAV_UPF.<\/p>\n

He actively participates in the dissemination of the technology and construction of lightweight facades, collaborating in different masters and postgraduate courses in Barcelona and Madrid and has written illustrated articles in numerous publications, manuals and magazines.<\/p>\n

Today he is collaborating in the development of the facades of the Hotel Catalonia by Jean Nouvel and Josep Ribas, the Balmes 49 building in Barcelona, by Eduard Gasc\u00f3n TAC Arquitectes, the DHUBB de Disseny de Barcelona, by MBM Arquitectes, the Guetxo auditorium by Luis M\u00aa Uriarte and the Procam Puig Tower by Moneo-Marcial-GCA architects.<\/p>\n

Banners from the following projects:<\/p>\n

– Conselleria de Benestar Social, Barcelona 22@. Josep lluis Mateo<\/p>\n

– Torre Gl\u00f2ries, Barcelona 22@. Jean Nouvel-B 720 Arquitectos<\/p>\n

– Hotel Torres\u00a0Porta Fira. Pla\u00e7a Europa. L\u2019Hospitalet.\u00a0Toyo Ito-B 720 Arquitectos<\/p>\n

– Media Complex. Barcelona 22@. Patrick Genard. Carlos Ferrater + Xavier Mart\u00ed.<\/p>\n

– Seu CMT- Barcelona 22@. Batlle i Roig<\/p>\n

– Temple Sagrada Familia. Aplics i Fanals de les Naus Central i Laterals. Of. Tec. Sag. Fam.+ Ferr\u00e9s Arq+Anoche Ilum.<\/p>\n

– Diagonal 640. Josep Mar\u00eda Fargas &Ass.<\/p>\n

Pictured from left to right Jordi Ballesta, Rom\u00e0 Arranz, Xavier Ferr\u00e9s, Fernando Amat i Francesc Pl\u00e0.<\/p>\n

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