Geometry and abstraction. Convergence between RCR Arquitectes and Pablo Palazuelo
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|Accepted: 2025-05-29
|Published: 2025-06-30
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graphic process, geometry, art, patterns
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Abstract:
Painting and architecture form an indivisible duality in the work of Pablo Palazuelo. His studies in the field of architecture at the University of Oxford, although unfinished, have largely determined the geometric character of his work. His lines, his forms and the relationships that occur between them came to situate his work in an exceptional balance between different art forms. The search for this balance of shared creativity between fields brought the Catalan studio RCR Arquitectes to study the geometric mechanisms developed by Palazuelo, as reflected in several of their designs. His sketches and watercolours are in keeping with the typological formulas with which Palazuelo worked. Through symmetries, changes of scale, geometric twists and shifts on variations of the same primary form, in this case seeking to architecturally resolve a spatial relationship based on the geometrisation of orthogonal projection.
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