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    The Sketch: An Ageless Drawing2019

    Starting from the basis that it is too restrictive to speak about a single type of drawing, this paper focuses its interest on hand drawing, which allows us to study and question the visible and the invisible. The aim is to explore the sketch timelessness through the analysis of a series of drawings from different architects and moments in time, which have given rise to architectures that are, indeed, framed within the time of their creation. Some sketches of Sverre Fehn that are compared with others of Mario Cucinella and some sketches of Lina Bobardi that are compared with others of Pierre Thibault are of invaluable help to achieve this purpose.

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    Un día en Carcassonne: el cuaderno de un arquitecto2014

    During the week between the days 7 and 15 of September 1959 takes place in the city of Otterlo, Holland, the celebration of the last International Congress of Modern Architecture (CIAM), with the participation of forty three architects from twenty different countries. Among them is Louis Kahn who comes to the event presenting two of his projects for the city of Philadelphia. He will be responsible for giving the final conference of the Congress with the talk of closure. Anticipating a few days to the dates of the congress, he travels to France where he remains six days, during which he will visit the cities of Albi, Carcassonne and Ronchamp.

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    Graphic Analysis of the Patents and Utility Models Registered by Spanish Architects Between 1950 and 19702022

    In this paper, we will undertake a graphic analysis of the most unknown patents and utility models of great Spanish architects, which were registered between 1950 and 1970. Inventions that proposed improvements in manufacturing processes and construction elements, furniture, and novel spatial solutions, as well as others that brought significant advances in the discipline of drawing. The drawings submitted when applying for a patent or utility model constitute per se the formal definition of the invention and must illustrate elements that lead to a better understanding of what the invention represents, with the aim of facilitating its comprehension in support of the specification. The graphic resources that architects could use to represent their inventions were scarce, as they were subject to the Royal Decree-Law of 1929, which allowed them to choose the scale and the system of representation for each drawing. We will analyze the common features of the drawings accompanying the inventions, which must, above all, be clarifying and unambiguous.