Enciclopedia de arquitectura Plazola

Este estudio inserta la vida y obra de Juan de Naveda en el contexto de la arquitectura castellana de la primera mitad del siglo XVII.

This series was the winner of the American Institute of Architects' prestigious "Award for Excellence in International Book Publishing". Each volume in this series is introduced with an essay on the architect, and a chronological or stylistic presentation of their most outstanding buildings and projects. No other series provides such a complete and concise summary of the world's leading architects' works. The volumes are fully illustrated in black-and-white with photos and project renderings.

El objetivo de este libro consiste, pues, en intentar hacer evidente una actitud frente al proyecto arquitectónico que haga posible que la obra de arquitectura establezca una relación dialógica en su interpretación del entorno natural, social y cultural; que esté dotada de contenido poético y, además, que sea capaz de asimilar y transmitir la cultura de las distintas comunidades, anteponiendo siempre, en la obra final, los valores del ser humano a cualesquiera otros como condición intrínseca e indisociable de la propia finalidad o razón de ser de la obra arquitectónica. Aalto...

"Taking over the baton from their mentor and friend Eduardo Chillida, the architects Juan Carlos Sancho (San Sebastián, 1957) and Sol Madridejos (Madrid, 1958) have pursued a sensitive dialectic between matter and void that lies at the foundations of a fertile formal laboratory, one where the fold is an instrument with great potential in the attainment of structural, spatial, and material coherence. In these pages Arquitectura Viva presents a selection of four Spanish works – ranging from a small chapel to a large educational complex – in which the duo composes variations on the same...