Ignasi de Solà-Morales Rubió (

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1942 -

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2001) was an architect, historian and philosopher from

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, Spain. He was professor of composition at the Barcelona School of Architecture, and also taught at the universities of Princeton, Columbia, Turin, and Cambridge.Andalusia Center for Contemporary Art: ''Attributos Urbanos: Glossary''
retrieved 29 April 2011 Among his most notable architectural works are the reconstruction of

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, and the reconstruction and expansion of the

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Theatre in Barcelona. Ignasi de Solà-Morales coined the term "terrain vague", applied to “free, available, unengaged” parts of the city that are, as urban scholar

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puts it, "left over as underutilized remnants of capitalist development."https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780203731932-65/painting-insurgent-artscapes-stefano-bloch

Publications

*1975: ''Rubió i Bellver y la fortuna del Gaudinismo'' *1976: ''L'arquitectura del expresionismo'' *1976: ''Centenari de l'Escola d'Arquitectura de Barcelona. Un assaig d'interpretació'' *1980: ''Eclecticismo y vanguardia'' *1983: ''Gaudí'' *1984: ''Arquitectura teatral en España'' *1985: ''L'Exposició Internacional de Barcelona 1914-1929'' *1986: ''Arquitectura Minimale a Barcelona'' *1986: ''Contemporary Spanish Architecture'' *1986: ''Arquitectura balneària a Catalunya'' *1996: ''Diferencias: topografía de l'arquitectura contemporánea''

References

Architects from Catalonia Urban theorists 1942 births 2001 deaths {{Catalonia-architect-stub