The Work of Machado and Silvetti presents the projects designed in the last four decades by these two architects. As active participants in the architectural scene of the ‘70s and '80s, they were intensely engaged in the origins of the debate that changed the course of architectural thinking, and of its pedagogical and professional practice implications. At the emergence of postmodernism, being considered as outsiders, they escaped from the reductionist attitudes that either took historical forms for legitimizing architectural practice, or renounced to accept that a tabula rasa as unthinkable. They confront the practice of architecture with realism and from a cultural perspective that engages the multiple social and technical practices that bear on the creative process of making architecture: they consider typologies as indifferent to function or to iconographic definition, and defend the potential of architectural language and of architecture as a discipline. Machado and Silvetti have coined the idea of unprecedented realism to describe their distinctive design strategies and techniques of assemblage, personal interpretation, the production of meaning and the creation of emerging typologies. Their work pays attention to the culture, site, market, material detailing and architectural composition. AUTHOR: Javier Cenicacelaya is an architect and professor of architecture at the University of the Basque Country. He is an architect from the University of Navarra and holds an MA from Oxford Brookes University and an MSc from the University of Oxford. He has an office in Bilbao with Inigo Salona. SELLING POINT:

This is the first monograph of the historic firm of Machado & Silvetti Associates, with never before seen images 300 colour images