Enric Miralles from Left to Right (and without Glasses) (Paperback)

This book is both an unconventional monograph of Miralles, one of the most respected and difficult to classify contemporary architects, and an artistic work in its own right.

David Bestué explores what “spending time” amongst the works of Enric Miralles means. Passing through them and living in them, Bestué coaxes unlikely meanings and emotions from them, capturing them in a series of photographs that illustrates a living architecture, removed from the preciosity to which architecture can often fall prey. The combination of essay, diary, notes and cultural references conjures a text reminiscent of a letter to a friend, or a travelogue of the type that so fascinated Miralles and marked the structure of his PhD thesis: Elements seen from left to right (without glasses). Bestué tries to unravel the great architect’s creative process, to understand how his ideas were formed and refined and how his work can survive and thrive in a seemingly unsympathetic world.