Radical Logic: On the Work of Ensamble StudioIker Gil (Editor), James Florio (Photographer)
MAS Context, April 2021

Hardcover | 9 x 11-1/4 inches | 328 pages | English | ISBN: 9781736743607 | $70.00

PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
Radical Logic reflects on the work of the architecture office Ensamble Studio. The book documents the first twenty years of the Boston- and Madrid-based office at a key moment in their career. After having designed and built a series of remarkable structures, such as the Hemeroscopium House in Madrid, the SGAE Central Office in Santiago de Compostela, The Truffle in Costa da Morte, and Structures of Landscape for Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana, their Ca?n Terra House and Ensamble Fabrica projects mark the next phase of the office. Through specially commissioned interviews with the architects, essays, and photographic documentation of their work by photographer James Florio, the book provides unique insight into the ideas that drive the studio, the ambitions behind their key projects, and their ongoing explorations. Radical Logic can be purchased via mascontext.com.
dDAB COMMENTARY:
It must have been 2006 when I discovered the work of Ensamble Studio, for that November I wrote about the Musical Studies Centre in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on my old weekly blog. I described the work of Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa then as "refreshingly different: heavy rather than light, opaque rather than transparent, rough rather than smooth."...