Carvajal y la voluntad de ser arquitectoLa construcción del proyecto y la belleza eficaz
- Carlos Labarta Aizpún
- Jorge Tárrago Mingo
ISSN: 2173-1616, 2171-6897
Year of publication: 2015
Issue Title: Arquitectos y profesores
Issue: 12
Pages: 38-51
Type: Article
More publications in: Proyecto, Progreso, Arquitectura
Abstract
Javier Carvajal Ferrer (Barcelona, 1926–Madrid, 2013) combined teaching and practice so that it is impossible to approach his work without considering his teaching and, conversely, we cannot understand his speech in classrooms if, at the same time, we do not examine his projects. Moreover, for Carvajal the architectural project is the specific field of the professor’s research and the efficacy mechanism by which the practitioner must give a coherent response to both theory and praxis. This text aims to evoke some of the virtues of his architectural work and the lessons of his teaching, exemplified in two of his most emblematic projects: first, his most praised project, the Spanish Pavilion for the World’s Fair in New York (1964–65), which marks fifty years; and the other project—more controversial—the Valencia Tower in Madrid (1970–73) by researching the rigor and beauty of the plans that he drew himself. Both works also illustrate important aspects of his personality that inevitably overlap in his feverish activity as an architect and professor, and show how his strong confidence in the quality of the project remains as the best contribution to the evolution of architecture. Authenticity, vocation, will, dedication, precision, rigor, perfection, consistency, and illusion are summarized in one of his famous messages to students: “Dream of the possible”.
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