Buenos Aires

This number of the monographic series is dedicated to restoration specialist, architect and watercolor painter Villa Chávez (b. Mexico). This extensive study of Villa Chávez life and architecture is divided in 2 parts: the first reviews his academic career and his professional practice in Guadalajara and Colima. A second part reviews in detail his restoration projects, his architecture, his open space interventions and his pictorial production (watercolors and drawings). Amongst other academic contributions Villa Chávez founded the School of Architecture in the University of Colima and was ...

Traces the career of the turn of the century Spanish architect, shows his designs for homes, apartments, schools, and churches, and discusses his unique, organic style

La teoría de la arquitectura en la actualidad, lejos de constituir un conjunto uniforme y coherente, se constituye por un conglomerado de aspectos dispersos que forman un mosaico entrelazado. El espacio, la memoria, el uso, la técnica, la luz, la percepción..., son algunos de los campos de interés que constituyen el rizoma caótico sobre el que se asienta el pensamiento arquitectónico. La Composición arquitectónica, entendida como el conjunto de disciplinas que configuran el substraigo teórico sobre el que se asienta la práctica de la arquitectura, se va organizando a partir de estas ...

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,...