Estructuras vistas, ocultas e ilusorias

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 ...

La estructura de análisis de este libro está dividida en tres partes, comenzando por los proyectos y culminando en la tesis, pasando por los ensayos teóricos, en un intento por entender cabalmente el arco vital de la formación del pensamiento arquitectónico desde el puro pragmatismo hasta el rigor especulativo. La primera parte de este ensayo está dedicada a los proyectos, es una selección ya que durante la carrera se llevan a cabo incontables ejercicios proyectuales, motivados por distintas exigencias académicas y muchos de ellos se pierden en la vorágine de la actividad. La...

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 ...

How much importance do we give to the settings in which we live, sleep and relax when we go travelling? Nowadays travel usually means spending time in hotels, and these establishments have set about specializing in order to satisfy the varied needs of their guests. In this book we have sought to open a window on today's highly innovative hotels by showcasing some particularly attractive examples from all over the world. All the hotels that we have gathered together are united by a quest for up-to-date design aimed at providing a welcome for business travelers or tourists.