La Existencia, el Lugar y la Arquitectura

"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...

"This study goes beyond a formal description and esthetic analysis of house design in Mexico to offer an interpretation based on the complex network of economic, social, and cultural relations. Begins with an analysis of the indigenous home and lifestyle and continues into postrevolutionary, modern, and contemporary periods of historic transition, during which a new conception of urban space developed offering greater possibilities for individual expression. Contains many b/w plates of colonial city plans, 19th-century plans and photographs, and 20th-century photographs up to the...

Llus Domnech i Montaner is the author of such extraordinary buildings as the Palau de la Msica, the museum of zoology and the hospital of Sant Pau. This publication gathers a collection of articles that treat the same works and present-day photographic material.

He estado pensando en escribir este libro hace tiempo... He estado pensando en ser Arquitecta hace más tiempo aún. Más precisamente, hace 40 años... Animo!! Que si Dios y la Patria me lo permiten... Que si Bush, Carter o Nixon, que si Menen, Alfonsín, el Papa o Pluto, que si el dólar, el euro, el patacón, los australes, las fichas del subte, los tickets restaurant, o los vales de caja... Que si Saturno y Mercurio en conjunción con Marte en la casa 4 (¿?). Que después de las elecciones, que antes del corralito, que con los importados, que con la revolución industrial, que con la...