Diálogos reconstruidos para una historia de la Caracas moderna

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style and accomplishments written by a leading architecture critic. Then, approximately twenty noteworthy works and projects are discussed by the architect and presented in detail with site plans, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.

The incredible life story of one of the 20th century's most important designers, who knew everyone from Hemingway to Picasso. Ettore Sottsass and the Poetry of Things chronicles the life and times of one of the most important, prolific, and, above all, interesting designers and architects of the 20th century. Sottsass (1917-2007), originally trained as an architect and worked as a design consultant for Olivetti, where he developed the iconic Valentine typewriter, before going on to found the Memphis Group in the 1980s, ushering in an era of influential designs in furniture, ceramics and...

This number of the monographic series is dedicated to restoration specialist, architect and watercolor painter Villa Chávez (b. Mexico). This extensive study of Villa Chávez life and architecture is divided in 2 parts: the first reviews his academic career and his professional practice in Guadalajara and Colima. A second part reviews in detail his restoration projects, his architecture, his open space interventions and his pictorial production (watercolors and drawings). Amongst other academic contributions Villa Chávez founded the School of Architecture in the University of Colima and was ...

Experiencias esenciales sobre el hábitat contemporáneo, pretexto para escribir acerca de problemas actuales y que tienen que ver sobre cómo viven las personas, sus derechos y deberes para con los demás, el medio ambiente y el futuro, todas visiones complejas de sumo interés para la sociedad contemporánea y cercanas a agendas públicas que tratan sobre el cambio climático, la equidad de género o la reivindicación de los derechos de las minorías, los jóvenes o el agua. Así mismo, esta publicación es importante para reconocer la vulnerabilidad de la sociedad contemporánea, frágil...