Poetry, Modern Architecture and Avant-Garde: The Catalan Poet J. V. Foix at the V Triennale di Milano, 1933 = Poesia, architettura moderna e avanguardie: il poeta catalano J. V. Foix alla V Triennale di Milano del 1933

The writer, journalist and poet J.V. Foix (1893-1987) had a very prominent role in Catalan culture, especially in the period of the Avant-gardes at the beginning of 20th Century. However, it is not well known his involvement in architecture as shown through several articles written after he visited the V Triennale in Milan (1933) and further on collected them in the book Mots i maons o a cascú el seu. Part of Foix's work can be considered a critical interpretation of architecture from a literary point of view. Apart a general approval for modernist architecture and Avant-garde, his writings reflected a surprisingly mature conception of architecture that anticipates relevant opinion that both in Italy and Spain would address architecture theoretical works in the second post-war period. Most likely Foix comes into direct contact with the architecture of the Modern Movement while he was visiting the V Triennale and he realized the potential of 'crosswise' interests between architecture and literature and especially between the international context and Catalonia.