'Crystalzoo. Sparkling Wild Animals'

Crystalzoo has presented a new book, 'CrystalZoo. Sparkling Wild Animals', a journey through the work of this studio from Alicante through interviews, graphic documentation of their projects and testimonials of their users.

The publishing house Doble Hélice presents 'CrystalZoo. Sparkling Wild Animals' which deeply shows the work of Crystalzoo, one of the studios that is transforming Alicante's towns by building public architecture devoted to society.

This work unites an author’s roster coming from diverse knowledge fields: José Juan Barba, architect and director of the journal Metalocus; Jordi Navas, journalist and Art history scholar, and Cristina Martínez, Diario INFORMACIÓN culture journalist. Also featuring Anatxu Zabalbeascoa, journalist, historian and El País architecture critic, who has signed up the interview to José Luis Campos, chief architect of CrystalZoo studio.

Although most of CrystalZoo production is developed in a local range, its projects have been published in the main architecture and design journals of the world and have also been rewarded with major distinctions and awards (FAD, FOPA, Europan..).

The book aims to serve as a model in the world of architecture, but also wants to be a guide for local authorities attracted by the social changes that can be generate by good architecture.

As a novelty, CrystalZoo. Sparkling Wild Animals develops an exhausting fieldwork to find out the users opinion and interaction with each one of the studied buildings. In a unique form, this book combines technical, scholar and scientific rigueur of multidisciplinary analysis with literature and travel essay, guiding us to a radical and innovative interpretation of architecture’s role as a social transformation tool.

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Hard Cover. Paperboard.- 328 pages
Publisher.- Doble Hélice SL; Edition: 1 (April 10th 2015)
Colection.- AF. Art and Architecture without frontiers
Language.- Spanish, English
ISBN-10.- 849437981X
ISBN-13.- 978-8494379819

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Interior pages. CrystalZoo. Sparkling Wild Animals by José Juan Barba, Cristina martínez y Jordi Navas. Image courtesy of Rafa Molina Planelles.

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JOSÉ LUIS CAMPOS ROSIQUE CRYSTALZOO

Crystalzoo is based on the idea of the office as a forum for debate and multidisciplinary collaboration where different concepts and individual skills combine to enrich the whole. It is considered one of Alicante's 6 best architecture firms and between the best 300 studios in Spain, during four years in a row since 2011. Among our successes, we find the exhibition of Hotel Balneario in Gijón in the MOMA, New York, 2006, 1st Prize at FOPA 2007 for the the Library of San Vicente del Raspeig.

José Luis Campos Rosique (Alicante, 1971), architect by UPV in 1999, 1st Prize for End of Degree Project by Generalitat Valenciana. He won the 1st Prize for the Public Library of San Vicente del Raspeig and the International Competition for the Thalassotherapy Centre in Gijón in 2002. He founded Aranea group in 2003 and was second in three international competitions Europan 7, Luarca 2003 and Europan 8, Sintra 2005 and Ceuta 2005 among others. In late 2005, he published the Journal zombiTour_00. In 2006 he founded Crystalzoo, architecture firm which he actually runs.

Published on: May 14, 2015

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