André Ricard, un silencioso combate
Chaves, Norberto
2010
André Ricard, un silencioso combate
Biographies
Chaves, Norberto
Norberto Chaves (Buenos Aires, 1942) is a philosopher and architect and devoted ambassador of the generation of '68. He was a teacher at and head of the Pedagogical Department of the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Buenos Aires. In 1976 he emigrated from Argentina, fleeing from the dictatorship, and moved to Barcelona, where he lives today. He is a committed teacher of image and communication and has published a number of books in this field. Parallel to this, he continues his cultural reflections, social critique and poetic evasion.
Chaves, Norberto
| 2010This book is the intellectual biography of a pioneer who has stood out in all the aspects in which the discipline of design is expressed: the production of industrial objects, the generation of theory and critique, and institutional construction. In all of them, he has fought a continuous battle which has converted him into one of the most influential authors in the broad fabric of Spanish design, and he has done so from silence.
Norberto Chaves chooses to focus on André Ricard’s theoretical reflection, on being the least well-known and appreciated, but fundamental to understand his ethics of the role of design in society. Thus, through a careful rereading of his texts and long conversations with Ricard himself and with important figures who have dealt with him closely (such as Yves Zimmermann, Oriol Bohigas and Xavier Rubert de Ventós), gradually reveals the complexity of his writings on design and his validity beyond the fluctuations of fashion.
ISBN: 978-84-934626-8-0
Chaves, Norberto – 2010
Spanish
Paperback, 23.5 x 16 cm / 9.165″ x 6.24″
156 pp
