Arquitectura en Italia

El libro analiza cómo convivió el desarrollismo franquista a partir de 1958 con la violencia política y represiva, entendiendo que no hubo el uno y la otra, sino el uno «en» la otra. Se acerca a los discursos populares que construyó el franquismo para ganar apoyos entre la opinión pública. Y, por otro lado, utiliza las fuentes policiales (de la Guardia Civil, de la Dirección General de Seguridad y de los gobiernos civiles) para estudiar la socialización política antifranquista que buscó deslegitimar a la dictadura. Es la historia no de grandes líderes, cuya imagen no se agiganta...

Visiting an exhibition by Leonardo Nierman is penetrating a space that invites us to dream in infinities, to discover exteriors and interiors of cosmic worlds. The exhibition Genesis de un Sueno (Genesis of a Dream) mounted at the Contemporary University Museum of Art in Mexico City conveyed such sensations to visitors. Running from May through August of 1996, it featured three hundred of Nierman's works spanning forty years and was reinstalled by popular demand through January 1997. Its beauty and mystery are now captured in this elegant volume. Nierman: Genesis de un Sueno is a celebration...

"Taking over the baton from their mentor and friend Eduardo Chillida, the architects Juan Carlos Sancho (San Sebastián, 1957) and Sol Madridejos (Madrid, 1958) have pursued a sensitive dialectic between matter and void that lies at the foundations of a fertile formal laboratory, one where the fold is an instrument with great potential in the attainment of structural, spatial, and material coherence. In these pages Arquitectura Viva presents a selection of four Spanish works – ranging from a small chapel to a large educational complex – in which the duo composes variations on the same...

Who ever said you can't have it all? This highly useful and decorative guide profiles lodgings around the world where you can enjoy the hippest of hospitality without breaking the bank. Including affordable hotels in locales as varied as Amsterdam and Cape Town, this guide makes sure your vacation fantasies can become reality.