Espacios mínimos habitables

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style and accomplishments written by a leading architecture critic. Then, approximately twenty noteworthy works and projects are discussed by the architect and presented in detail with site plans, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.

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 ...

El tratado de Ledoux no ofrece una estructura convencional sobre temas habituales de la tratadística, sino que proyecta sobre el futuro, sobre una idea de ciudad ideal, toda una serie de tipos y composiciones absolutamente nuevos en la Historia de la arquitectura. De ahí la seducción que sus imágenes han planteado a tantos arquitectos contemporáneos, de Le Corbusier a Ph. Johnson.

La obra examina la relevancia del trabajo de la filósofa Luce Irigaray en el contexto arquitectónico. Ocho capítulos temáticos exploran el valor corporal, espacio-temporal, político y cultural de sus ideas para hacer, discutir y experimentar la arquitectura. En particular, cada capítulo hace accesibles las ideas de Irigaray sobre los espacios femeninos y masculinos con referencia a sus textos clave. La teoría de Irigaray sobre los sujetos sexuados se explica para mostrar cómo la sexualidad influye en las diferentes formas en que hombres y mujeres construyen y habitan la arquitectura....