2.* Jornadas de Historia y Cultura de la Arquitectura y la Ciudad

For the first time ever a monograph dedicated to the temporary projects and personal designs created by world-renowned architect Enric Miralles.A quick perusal of the pages makes it patently clear that for Miralles the word temporary could never be synonymous with minor. From the design of the pergolas in the Olympic Village in Barcelona to the changing sets of an Opera that premiered in his own studio each work is a celebration of space, time and movement. 16 projects are featured.

The book examines the long, productive and stormy relationship architect Le Corbusier had with Argentina and the series of events in consequence. His Argentinean disciples Jorge Ferrari Hardoy, Juan Kurchan and Antonio Bonet, although influenced by the master architect had their own architectonic and urban ideas. The book examines the "Austral Net" created towards the productive, plural and complex relationship of these 4 personages where the central figure is the famed Swiss architect. The book is chronologically organized and includes a selection of the most important architecture...

El lector encontrara en esta edicion una descripcion detallada de la arquitectura y la filosofia de Louis Kahn, cuyo pensamiento cambio por completo el curso de la arquitectura en Estados Unidos. Ensayos y fotografias van acompanados de sucintas notas complementarias, asi como de una lista completa de edificios y proyectos y un indice, que hacen de esta edicion una fuente erudita e ilustrativa de primer orden. Gustavo Gili dispone de una monogafia mas compacta de Louis Kahn en la coleccion obras y proyectos.

La arquitectura de Luis Barragán se ha convertido en uno de los hechos artísticos señeros del arte mexicano y universal. [...] Asi, en este ensayo, la estudiosa rememora las tempranas influencias que Barragan recibio en su primera estancia europea: les disenos de jardines de Bac, las prospuestas vanguaristats de Le Corbusier, y la "arquitectura sin fin" de Kiesler[...].