TY - BOOK ED - MIAS Architects (New York, New York), TI - The Loop Project: Mias Architects SN - 9781638400752 AV - NA1313.M45 A4 2023 PY - 2023/// CY - New York PB - Actar Publishers KW - Architects KW - Architectural firms KW - Exhibitions KW - Spain Barcelona KW - History KW - Architecture, Modern KW - MiAS Arquitectes KW - Barcelona Spain N1 - MIAS Archive -- Part One: Forwards -- Speaking Volumes / Bob Sheil -- X-Rays -- Structural Evolution / Josep Maria Montaner -- Part Two: Backwards -- Unpredictable Traces / Sir Peter Cook -- Design Disobedience / Marcos Cruz -- MIAS Publications, Profile & Awards -- Index of Topics -- Index of Projects -- Credits -- N2 - This book collects the work of the MIAS studio over twenty years. Their projects cannot be explained only as finished works but need an understanding of the design process: everything that happens before the cranes arrive. Based on four concepts, it explains the conceptual and constructive evolution of the studio's most emblematic projects through drawings, collages, engravings, sketches and models. Oneiric Spaces, Assemblage, Archive and Finishing are the concepts that articulate the work of MIAS and its trajectory since its foundation in 2000 ER -