Goethe y la arquitectura teatral

[EN] As a playwright and theatre director in Weimar, Goethe became interested in theatre architecture. He proved it in his architectural drawings. He channeled his ideas through theatre type described by Vitruvius and its modern time adaptation by Palladio in his Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza. All this was reflected in several sketches and the project developed together with architect Coudray after the fire in Weimar theatre in 1825

Proyectos de escaleras de Goethe

Significantes estéticos y arquitectura. Límite y crítica de la teoría de los símbolos de Nelson Goodman

Autonomía y expresión en la arquitectura. La antinomia de la modernidad al hilo de Claude-Nicolas Ledoux

Desde Kaufmann, el proyecto de autonomía en la arquitectura ha tenido que enfrentarse a una aparente paradoja: o bien suscribía la tesis formalista según la cual el compromiso con lo social se establece “despolitizando” la arquitectura (Johnson o Rossi); o bien se recuperaba la naturaleza social de la arquitectura, corriendo el riesgo constatado en las vanguardias de confundirse con lo que se espera poder cambiar (Hays o Eisenman). Si por una parte la racionalización propia de lo moderno posibilitaba la figuración de una alternativa social, por otra su tendencia hacia la abstracción amenazaba con alejar a la arquitectura de la sociedad. En contra de esta interpretación extendida en la recep…

Baukunst. Goethe’s Notes for a Treatise on Architecture

In Italy, Goethe’s interest in architecture increased. Back, with reference to Winckelmann, he started a small treatise on architecture. Dated 1795, it’s entitled Baukunst. It is a folder of 13 numbered pages, with some blank sheets and barely hinted pencil drawings that show its unfinished nature. Text on each page occupies the middle right of a folio and leaves the left side free to place corresponding drawings. The comparison between both text and drawings can give us a more complete view of Goethe’s architectural theory as counterpoint to his criticism and analytical or descriptive comments of buildings.

Goethe's scenography drawings

[EN] Goethe’s facet of playwright and theater manager guarantee his architectural knowledge on these issues shown in his drawings. In its stage proposals he left the Vitruvian and Palladian models, followed in the typological definition, eliminating the architectural frons scænæ frons and preferring sets painted. Thus, fictitious architecture fit each representation but it differed from building’s architecture appropriateness.

Arquitectura y fantasmas de cristal [Ressenya]

Reseña del libro "Fantasmas de la vida moderna. Ampliaciones y quiebras del sujeto en la ciudad contemporánea" de Luis Arenas, Trotta, Madrid, 2011, 232 pp.