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UNDERGROUND ARE LOST A GOOD BLOG OF ARCHITECTURE PART NO

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If you are looking for a good blog of architecture, here is one: n +1

(To see that I am not afraid to use the word "good" when it comes to story.)

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the 2009-2010 academic year is finished and I have to give notice of a failure. After two years off and timid attempts to continue the work of the Architecture Guide LOGROÑO (whose first volume appeared in 2007), earlier this year I decided finally working on volume II of the work (which would carry the subtitle THE CITY OF PACKAGES AND AUTOVIAS). For a few weeks I went back to the Municipal Archives in the notebook and went on to material for those polygons of God to take pictures and not a little scandalized the architecture of the last thirty years, so that the desktop computer I have also While folder full of ghosts that do not know where to put.



As this city was not more effective support to the friendship of Javier Dulin, when I started riding to work I told a gathering every two weeks to go commenting on the findings or reflecting doubts. We did none. When this year we coupled the odd Thursday, has been to listen to jazz together or comfort of other things. Pretty hard I had it to survive in his office to a grueling year of crisis in the sector.




In early March, the People's University finally gave me the opportunity to tell the city that had done work in Volume I of this work and for a moment I thought that loving hearing later this winter I would encourage, but it was an isolated siren.



As in the past two years the City Council Socialist mayor of Logroño Manuel Santos and its regional partner Angel Varea, has not shown the slightest interest in spreading the work distributed by bookstores, during this course I was determined to go buy some copies and taking them to the Library Cerezo, who kindly resold no charge on the municipal price.



As if that were not enough, the same City Council (and its cultural consultants / not want to forget Jesus Vicente Aguirre and José Manuel La Calzada) that has failed for three years to sell its Tourism Office Volume I of the Guide, published with its own public money occurred in June last the news that the recent Architectural Guide written by José Miguel and Aurora León and edited by the COAR, such a "guide" and selective typical statement from the aestheticism and ideological affinity or the author's personal , would be from the first moment for sale at their counters.




But what put me off, by far, was the architectural quality of this second crown of Logroño designed from a standalone package, open and sparsely urban and completed with a single or block architecture between borders of typological dreadful monotony. Discover that this is the city that the architects have done in the past thirty years and find housing stock dull and even without cross ventilation and a single direction, gave me time and again arguments to loathe my former colleagues while away from me any love or affection for this city, its makers, administrators and uncritical citizens.



The working method was not complicated: see the partial plans, the way they were managers, designers themselves and their vicissitudes. And then consider who were the architects of the promoters and not many parts that make up each them. The work is sleazy but I'm sure the result would be devastating. The joint image of that non-city surely would have been a lot harder to document than the one offered in the first volume. But if it already has been rejected by the city ostrich, it is logical that the second could not even born. Logroño not want to look in that mirror and I have no desire to pay. There will be no sequel. Or, in key staff: the return of summer, and I approach it.