La vivienda social

Se presentan algunas ideas sobre el análisis de la arquitectura, entendido como proceso de conocimiento, y sobre el dibujo como lenguaje distintivo, valorando su importancia en la ideación y narración de la arquitectura, para imaginarla, conocerla y darla a conocer.

Manizales cuenta, en su patrimonio cultural, con obras de reconocido valor arquitectónico, producto de la colonización antioqueña de mediados del siglo XIX; con el conjunto de edificaciones republicanas más importante de Colombia, construido en la década del veinte del siglo pasado, y también con piezas de especial calidad pertenecientes a los periodos moderno y contemporáneo. En relación con el periodo moderno podemos destacar la obra del arquitecto Jorge Gutiérrez Duque, como puede apreciarse en los edificios que aún subsisten y que no han sido alterados con el tiempo, como se...

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 ...