Six Argentine designers from Barcelona
Chaves, Norberto
2006
Six Argentine designers from Barcelona
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
| 2006Since the 60s and 70s, Argentina has been the country that has given Spain -and more specifically Barcelona- the largest number of first class designers. Among the most outstanding, we find Mario Eskenazi, Alberto Lievore, Jorge Pensi, Carlos Rolando, Ricardo Rousselot and América Sánchez, five of whom are National Design Prize laureates. Now, using firsthand accounts, Norberto Chaves -another major player in this migratory phenomenon- has assembled a book with multiple characters that addresses the following questions: Why have Argentine designers integrated so successfully into the fabric of Barcelonese life? What did they bring, what did they find and how did they manage to combine both so well? And why does this surprise us? Rather than compiling a mere anthology of the designers’ work, the author invites us to listen to a dialogue between two cultural contexts through the six experiences and a clarifying conclusion.
ISBN 978-84-932053-8-9
Chaves, Norberto – 2006
Spanish / English
Paperback, 26 x 21.5 cm / 10.14″ x 8.385″
280 pp
