Arquitectura románica en Pontevedra

La aparente contradicción entre las palabras proyectar e incertidumbre revela la tensión conceptual que caracteriza a estas páginas. De un lado, proyectar es un trabajo de previsión y anticipación, cuyo objetivo es la construcción de un edificio que está pensado para permanecer a lo largo del tiempo. Por otro lado, la incertidumbre apela a la imposibilidad de prever, a la falta de certezas y a lo inesperado. La necesidad de búsqueda de un acuerdo entre estos dos objetivos irresolubles, define la intencionalidad y el marco discursivo del libro, situando la ambivalencia como el término ...

"CEDODAL in collaboration with the Estrada family organized an exhibition and the present accompanying book that examines the life and professional career of Argentinean architect Estrada. The book gathers various authors who review in their texts the influence German architect Hermann Jansen had over the young Estrada, his integration to the National Forests project (1934) and his legacy in the planning of urban centers, infrastructure works and tourism and hotel architecture particularly in the Patagonian region. Estrada's culmination was the Civic Center of Bariloche, (today historic and...

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 author describes and discusses the influence Le Corbusier in Uruguay through a series of trips, the first done by the Swiss-French architect in 1929, and the remaining ones from the three Uruguayan architects who joined the workshop of the notable architect: Carlos Gómez Gavazzo, in 1933, Justino Serralta, in 1948, and Carlos Clémot, in 1949. The study also includes aspects of Antonio Bonet Castellana's trip, who was there in 1937 and in Uruguay from 1945 to 1948, and additionally analyzes what Eladio Dieste learned from his "Le Courvoisier partners" Serralta and Clémot as well as the...