Enciclopedia de arquitectura Plazola

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...

Esta libro muestra una seleccion de obras de alta calidad arquitectonica que tienen en comun dos caracterisiticas: todas ellas se encuentran ubicadas en un contexto urbano y manifiestan una actitud comun definida por los autores como una "modernaidad posracionalista." Las obras seleccionadas se agrupan en siete ciudades latinoamericanas: Santa Fe de Bogota, Buenos Aires, Caracas, Lima, Mexico D.F., Santiago de Chile y Sao Paulo.

Cómo miran los arquitectos, cómo se han construido la mirada aquellos que se estudian y cómo podemos aprender de los mismos confeccionando la nuestra. Ésa es la búsqueda que da forma a este trabajo, teniendo como objetivo primero la arquitectura.