Barcelona

La primera lectura que hacemos de una ciudad es a través de su propia estructura urbana y su arquitectura. Los diversos acontecimientos de la historia tienen un claro reflejo en la manera en que se han construido las ciudades. El Atlas Histórico de Arquitectura nos permite hacer una lectura global de la ciudad al ofrecer un mapa completo sobre la historia de su desarrollo urbano y su arquitectura. Londres, el primer título de esta colección, es una ciudad que a lo largo de su historia no ha dejado de ser punto de referencia de la cultura occidental. En el presente volumen se recogen los...

A set of essays on the modern architecture in the city of Bogota. The articles are the result of the concerns of the authors around the utility of the buildings that make up the history of modern architecture in the country for the understanding of the problems of the contemporary city. The raised arguments include project dimensions, which includes urban, landscape, building and technique.ʺ--Back cover (translated by Karno Books).

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

Located in Mexico City, Tatiana Bilbao Estudio is well known internationally for its use of traditional Mexican construction techniques, the highly sculptural effects of its buildings and its unusually collaborative approach toward each client. Founded by Tatiana Bilbao (born 1972) in 2004, its completed buildings include the Gratitude Open Chapel in La Ruta del Peregrino, Gabriel Orozco's house in Roca Blanca and the botanical garden in Culiacan. The enormous production of ideas and designs that takes place there is directed to different spaces, in which the architecture is deeply humanized. ...

"This study goes beyond a formal description and esthetic analysis of house design in Mexico to offer an interpretation based on the complex network of economic, social, and cultural relations. Begins with an analysis of the indigenous home and lifestyle and continues into postrevolutionary, modern, and contemporary periods of historic transition, during which a new conception of urban space developed offering greater possibilities for individual expression. Contains many b/w plates of colonial city plans, 19th-century plans and photographs, and 20th-century photographs up to the...