LA PLAZA DE TOROS DE SEVILLA

Visiting an exhibition by Leonardo Nierman is penetrating a space that invites us to dream in infinities, to discover exteriors and interiors of cosmic worlds. The exhibition Genesis de un Sueno (Genesis of a Dream) mounted at the Contemporary University Museum of Art in Mexico City conveyed such sensations to visitors. Running from May through August of 1996, it featured three hundred of Nierman's works spanning forty years and was reinstalled by popular demand through January 1997. Its beauty and mystery are now captured in this elegant volume. Nierman: Genesis de un Sueno is a celebration...

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 ...

Este libro se acerca a la cuestión del método en arquitectura focalizando su análisis principalmente en 5 obras concretas del panorama contemporáneo, tratando de desvelar las motivaciones últimas que las constituyen. KAZUYO SEJIMA (+ Nishizawa + SANAA), Casa en un Huerto de Ciruelos en Tokio. FRANK O. GEHRY, Walt Disney Concert Hall en Los Ángeles. ÁLVARO SIZA, Museo Mimesis en Paju Book City. REM KOOLHAAS, La Embajada de Holanda en Berlín. PETER ZUMTHOR, Museo Kolumba en Colonia. El objeto y la obra arquitectónica se consideran así los elementos susceptibles de ofrecer el...

Excerpt from Recuerdos y Bellezas de España: Obra Destinada para Dar a Conocer Sus Monumentos, Antigüedades, Paysages Etc Véase la introduccion general que precede al tratado de Cataluña.perdónesenos esta innovacion en nuestro plan, creemos no fuera inopor tuno, antes de, internarnos en la relacion de los recuerdos y bellezas de la isla, saber algo de sus épocas mas antiguas, y presentar reunidos por via de resúmen los hechos anteriores a su restauracion, ya que-unas y. Otros dificilmente encontrarían buen lugar entre los objetos artísticos ó na turales. Ademas, la osada espedicion...