In defence of the sketch: City and Landscape in the Architecture of Julio Cano Lasso (original) (raw)

María-Elia Gutiérrez-Mozo Architect (UNAV, 1992) and Ph.D. in Architecture (UPM, 1999). Professor of Architectural Composition at the University of Alicante. Her research lines are near and contemporary architecture and city and inclusive and participatory urbanism. Director of the Architecture Research Group "Experiences of the Environment" and the Campus Development Secretariat of the UA. In defence of the sketch: City and Landscape in the Architecture of Julio Cano Lasso This essay aims to describe, analyse and value the drawing as "the fast and nervous outline, which captures the essen al features" of the landscape and the city that is installed in it, fi rst as host and then as hostess, through specifi c projects by architect Julio Cano Lasso, in our view paradigmatic, in mately linked to the landscape that the city recreates and creates. We have chosen four fl agship ci es in this aspect: San ago de Compostela, Salamanca, Toledo and Cuenca. In all of them it refl ects, through the drawing, his project,always a en ve to the landscape in its double sense, natural and ar fi cial, and he puts into prac ce his passion for what he calls "historical ci es", of which the aforemenoned are an indisputable example. Objec ve of this ar cle is to unravel the deep links that exist between the urban landscape of the ci es that the architect draws and the architecture that projects as part of it, to unveil the