Essays on Architectures and Ceramics by Cátedra Cerámica Madrid is a collection of texts whose aim is to bring together thinking about ceramic from a contemporary architectural perspective. The aforementioned objective of developing thinking about the spatial value of ceramic materials led the editors to ask a series of prestigious architects, professors to write a few architectural reflections that would constitute the essays contained in this small book of architectures and ceramics.
On this occasion, the architects have written texts about ceramics based on its use in their own architecture, a different use that reflects the different way each one thinks about architectural space.
Carlos Ferrater, under the title, “Ceramics, Variations,” develops the theme of the contemporary use of ceramics in architectural design by means of two projects: the Casa AA and Benidorm West Beach Promenade. Wang Shu, under the title, “From Earth to Ceramics. A Living Construction,” reflects on the relationship between architecture and nature in traditional Chinese architecture. A recurrent theme that runs through his constructed work, that leads him to the conclusion that tradition should be recovered in contemporary architecture by means of craftsmanship. Paredes-Pedrosa contributed the essay, “Ceramics in the Palau de Peñiscola”. In it, they review the process of that project.
