FOLDING ARCHITECTURE FOR AN ASTONISHING DECADE Emilio Pérez Piñero and the Architecture of the Sixties

Abstract

The article reviews the work of Emilio Pérez Piñero, a designer of unfolding structures and geodesic domes, who leaped directly from isolated, impoverished Spain to the international forefront of technological development and died tragically a few years after. The paper describes the main aspects aspects of Piñero's work and explains how his foldable, movable structures embody some key issues of the architecture of the nineteen-sixties, anticipating a number of proposals by Rayner Banham, Ron Herron or Peter Cook.

Keywords

• emilio pérez piñero
• cúpulas geodésicas
• estructuras desplegables
• estructuras transportables
• rayner banham
• peter cook
• ron herron
• archigram