Arquitectura y envejecimiento

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,...

This catalogue of the work of the Barcelona architect Manuel Brullet (Mataró, Barcelona, 1941) covers the last tent years of his production.

The book is an historic and graphical account of the patios of "vecindad" (neighbourhood) in the port city of Veracruz, in a period that goes from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century. The foreword of this edition, states that the first record of a patio of a "vecindad" dates back to 1791, highlighting that those patios have seen the early years of musician and singer "Toña la Negra" and were the place of origin of the famous "picadas" from Veracruz, one of the most popular snacks of the jarocha traditional cuisine.

Al dedicarse a Cuba, el presente trabajo pretende contribuir a cerrar uno de los tantos vacíos en el tratamiento de la arquitectura de los países del llamado Tercer Mundo. Siendo un país pequeño, lo especial de Cuba y su importancia en un contexto latinoamericano y global reside en buena parte en el camino diferente que anda de 1959 en adelante. Más allá de las opiniones que este camino pueda merecer a nivel político, el presente trabajo contempla y se orienta por la arquitectura: que sean los frutos los que digan ante qué árbol se está. Para esto, las ciudades y las casas han sido...