The Labayen-Aizpurua studio. A neoplastic experimental lab

Abstract

With the development of the avant-garde in the early twentieth century, the debate, long before started, about the relation of art with architecture and furniture, was revived. The paper explains how those new artistic forms permeate through the development of those disciplines, and represent an image of modernity to some architects who take on that formal language and integrate it into their works. This research explores the case of the Studio of the Spanish architects Joaquin Labayen and Jose Manuel Aizpurua, who not only used Neoplasticism in their early works, following architects such as J.J.P. Oud or P. Mondrian, but also proposed a new interpretation of the modern vanguard through their personal perspective. Beyond a particular aesthetic, the artwork is used as a spatial solution.

Keywords

• studio
• labayen
• aizpurua
• neoplasticismo