The work of Fabian Llonch and Gisela Vidalle – presented here in an eye - opening survey - is marvelous for its imaginative seamlessness, and the way in which the artist’s truth always shines through the circumstances of its articulation. Here is architecture of inseparable form and thought. The thirteen projects in this book are filled with the fervor and energy of an architect who also teaches young architects. Fabian Llonch and Gisela Vidalle are part of a small group of architects who understand the importance of the relationship between teaching and practice, its place at that intricate and indefinable nexus of architecture and its theory in which architecture schools are hothouses for the incubation of ideas in architecture and design. A collaboration between The City College of New York Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture and Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers

• Foreword by George Ranalli
• Introduction by Michael Sorkin
• Essays by Mario Corea and Paul Guzzardo
• Edited by Oscar Riera Ojeda

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Contributors Biographies

George Ranalli has been Dean of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at City College since 1999. He received his Bachelor of Architecture from the Pratt Institute (1972) and Master of Architecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University (1974). He was Professor of Architecture at Yale University (1976-1999), and the William Henry Bishop Chaired Professor in Architectural Design (1988-1989). He recently completed his fourth monograph, Saratoga, devoted to his Saratoga Avenue Community Center for the New York City Housing Authority. His architectural and design work has been exhibited in the US and Europe and published internationally in numerous journals.

Michael Sorkin received his architectural training at Harvard and MIT and holds degrees from the University of Chicago and Columbia. He is the principal of the Michael Sorkin Studio in New York City. He is founding president of Terreform, a non-profit organization dedicated to research and urban intervention. He is president of the Institute for Urban Design; Distinguished Professor of Architecture and the Director of the Graduate Urban Design Program at The City College of New York (where he has taught since 2000), Professor of Urbanism and Director of the Institute of Urbanism at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (1993 to 2000), and he has been a professor at numerous schools of architecture. He lectures around the world, is the author of several hundred articles, and is currently a contributing editor at Architectural Record.

Mario Corea is a graduate of the Universidad Nacional de Rosario and received his Master of Architecture in Urban Design at GSD, Harvard University, and a Diploma of Urban Studies from the Architectural Association in London. In 1982 he founded Corea Gallardo Mannino and, in 1992, Mario Corea Arquitectura where he is currently the principal. Mario has been honored with numerous national and international awards and his work is widely published in books and magazines around the world. He has been a professor of architecture at several schools in Europe, the US, and Argentina. He has lectured all over the world and his work has been exhibited at many venues.

Paul Guzzardo is a designer and media activist. He is currently collaborating with Lorens Holm of the Geddes Institute for Urban Research and David Walczyk of the Cultural Informatics Lab at the Pratt Institute on the “The Cartographer’s Dilemma.” His praxis probes the effect of ubiquitous computing on the design and occupation of public space. He investigates how the recursive “loop-cut-paste” grammar of digital information systems can activate the public sphere. As a media ecologist he believes the street is the place to find out how the digital fog of image and sound affect our democratic public sphere and civic identity.