The work of Spanish architect Julio Salcedo is showed in this book as a series of built and speculative projects.
Salcedo's houses, early achievements that stunned both academic and professional circles with their freshness and precocious sophistication are presented with unpublished ompetition proposals for large-scale buildings.
The projects in their varying locales, scales and ambitions all demonstrate a commitment to architecture as a conceptual medium with a capacity to tackle complex ideas as well as a material practice with a transformative worldliness. Each is a built essay that works through architectural problems of form, construction and material to achieve a thought-provoking resolutionin a difficult yet satisfying beauty.
The book complements a thorough graphic documentation of selected projects with Salcedo s own writings and critical essays by Luis Rojo and Ivan Rupnik.