Documentos de arquitectura moderna en América Latina 1950-1965

"No historical European city looks as modern as Berlin. Renovating and changing constantly, in the last one hundred years a notion of modernity in architecture peculiar to Berlin has developed in the German capital. In light of the multitude of meanings this term can have the present volume shows a broad spectrum of Modernism with its technical and constructive as well as formal and aesthetic innovations in the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century, marked by the great names of architecture, from Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe to Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid. Berlin...

This the third book of the series prepared to spread and promote Mexican residential architecture, a style that is more and more pure and bright. Mexican residential architecture has succeeded in integrating proportion, functionality, context and materials for the pleasure of the persons who create or live in these homes.

Xavier Bordils (Castelló, 1939) has stood out for his contributions to promote and spread design, graphic design and packaging, as well as for his intense projectual activity. Convictions and preferences are summarised in the text that goes with his mark: ¿Xavier Bordils: anti-stylist design, graphic design, structural design, global design, utilitary design, industrial product design, sematic design, architectural design, design, blah, blah, blah.¿

A collection of articles from experts in different fields on Valencian architecture from the medieval to modern era, focusing on vaulted systems, and based on the idea that architecture begins with the conception of an idea and ends with the disappearance of the architectural work. This book seeks to combine the history of architecture with an investigation into distinct architectural forms of expression and representation.