Jose Luis Mateo/Spanish and English

This catalogue of the work of the Barcelona architect Manuel Brullet (Mataró, Barcelona, 1941) covers the last tent years of his production.

A selection of the most prominent works of architecture selected by El Croquis with an introduction by Juan Antonio Cortés and an essay by William Curtis. Among the works are the Sendai Mediatheque by Toyo Ito, the Yokohama International Port Terminal by Foreign Office Architects, the Netherlands Embassy in Berlin by OMA-Rem Koolhaas, the Braga Municipal Stadium by Eduardo Souto de Moura, the Prada Aoyama Epicenter by Herzog & De Meuron, the Scottish Parliament building by EMBT, the Monastery of Our Lady of Novy Dvur by John Pawson, the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art expansion by Steven Holl,...

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 ...

La transformación del paisaje urbano, los elementos que son parte de ese complejo proceso y sus efectos son los temas que abordan los ensayos reunidos en Ciudad, urbanización y urbanismo en el siglo XX venezolano. La revisión y el balance de estos asuntos tienen como eje, por supuesto, las ideas de ciudad y urbanismo y, a la vez, toman en cuenta tres elementos: la revolución petrolera, la urbanización y la modernización, tríada esencial para caracterizar la centuria en análisis desde la perspectiva de los estudios urbanos, tal como explica Arturo Almandoz Marte, coordinador del...