Arquitectura y climas

A selection of the most prominent works of architecture selected by El Croquis with an introduction by Juan Antonio Cortés and an essay by William Curtis. Among the works are the Sendai Mediatheque by Toyo Ito, the Yokohama International Port Terminal by Foreign Office Architects, the Netherlands Embassy in Berlin by OMA-Rem Koolhaas, the Braga Municipal Stadium by Eduardo Souto de Moura, the Prada Aoyama Epicenter by Herzog & De Meuron, the Scottish Parliament building by EMBT, the Monastery of Our Lady of Novy Dvur by John Pawson, the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art expansion by Steven Holl,...

Suiza ha sido el país de origen de algunos de los arquitectos más admirados del panorama arquitectónico actual. Ilustradas profusamente a través de planos, dibujos y fotografías, las obras de los arquitectos suizos tanto emergentes como consolidados que e

El libro de los ingenios: colección de vistas de los principales ingenios, de Eduardo Laplante y Justo Germán Cantero, es uno de las más célebres y codiciados de los libros impresos en Cuba. Editado con maestría; contiene veintiocho grabados, diecinueve representan exteriores y nueve interiores de casas de caldera en los que se muestra escenas de la industria azucarera. Fue impreso en la Litografía de Luis Marquier y presentado por la Real Junta de Fomento de Cuba. El sumario del El libro de los ingenios es de por sí un panorama de los propietarios de Ingenios de Cuba y de la...

Javier Senosiain¹s architecture is always a discovery and, undoubtedly, a surprise that causes intrigue and certain restlessness; it is full of questions particularly for those of us who were formed on the functional rational school where, it should be said, he was formed with us. The questions are accumulated when opening this book of his work as it happened when reading his book of bioarchitecture. In the integral and modern Mexican architecture society, these unusual gestures are not so frequent and, since the appearance of the above mentioned works, a growing surprise has accompanied the ...