Espacios mínimos habitables

"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...

The book is the resulting papers from the Seminars of Latin American Architecture (SAL) organized by CEDODAL as an example of academic cooperation between Latin American architects who share their concern for the conservation of the region's architectural patrimony. This edition comprises case studies and historical, economic, social and architectural analysis of the farms and landowners of the haciendas and estancias from 7 countries of Latin America: Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, México, Perú and Puerto Rico.

El presente libro reúne una serie muy diversa de textos que se han dividido en tres grandes apartados temáticos. El primero es el dedicado a la arquitectura de los grandes maestros, y que insiste sobre todo en tres autores que siguen siendo claves de nuestro panorama y de nuestro quehacer, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe y Alvar Aalto, completados también con Scharoun y con los arquitectos nórdicos más famosos entendidos como un trabajo colectivo. Todos los textos indagan fundamentalmente acerca de la forma de hacer arquitectura -de la forma de proyectar- de estos importantes personajes, ...

Javier Senosiain¹s architecture is always a discovery and, undoubtedly, a surprise that causes intrigue and certain restlessness; it is full of questions particularly for those of us who were formed on the functional rational school where, it should be said, he was formed with us. The questions are accumulated when opening this book of his work as it happened when reading his book of bioarchitecture. In the integral and modern Mexican architecture society, these unusual gestures are not so frequent and, since the appearance of the above mentioned works, a growing surprise has accompanied the ...