Carlos Obregón Santacilia

"CEDODAL in collaboration with the Estrada family organized an exhibition and the present accompanying book that examines the life and professional career of Argentinean architect Estrada. The book gathers various authors who review in their texts the influence German architect Hermann Jansen had over the young Estrada, his integration to the National Forests project (1934) and his legacy in the planning of urban centers, infrastructure works and tourism and hotel architecture particularly in the Patagonian region. Estrada's culmination was the Civic Center of Bariloche, (today historic and...

Mediante el análisis de seis pequeñas construcciones situadas en archipiélagos arquitectónicos radicalmente distantes -el campamento de Ocatillo (F. Ll. Wright, 1929); la Caja (R. Erskine, 1942); el Cabanon (Le Corbusier, 1952); la casa cúpula en Carbondale (R. B. Fuller, 1960); el refugio en Oropesa (F. J. Sáenz de Oíza, c.1967-1977) y el pabellón de invitados en Kempsey (G. Murcutt, 1992)- la aparente aporía que supone la cabaña moderna, frente a la más lógica, en principio, cabaña primitiva, cobra sentido. Efectivamente, el referente mítico de la cabaña primitiva, tal y como ...

"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...

Deambular, siguiendo estrictamente el significado que nos da el DRAE, es ir de un lugar a otro sin un fin determinado. Posiblemente, pudiera parecer que ello supone caminar sin lógica, sin rumbo alguno. Realmente consiste en dedicar tiempo al hecho del recorrido, sin pretensión de llegar a un punto determinado. Es usual encontrar espacios "de pasos perdidos" en arquitecturas en las que la componente dialéctica o reflexiva tiene un papel configurador. Surgen así las girolas, deambulatorios o peristilos, dando cabida a un hecho eminentemente socrático: recorrer sin llegar a un final,...