Frei Otto

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...

An architecture school celebrates its 10th anniversary by publishing representative student work, but concerned with how readers often fail to acknowledge and ultimately disregard the relevance of student ideas, reducing them to mere image-making. Instead of listing projects by type or name, it was decided they would be presented in question format (bilingually), underlining the importance of inquiry over image. Question entries numbered from 1 to 100 (grouped by theme) predetermined the books format. Elegance (it is about architecture) and informality (but also about students) had to be...

Comienza esta obra con una ajustada síntesis de la historia gallega a partir de la romanización. La investigación formal, de conjunto, viene valorada por una cuidadosa planimetría y un pormenorizado examen de los elementos arquitectónicos de los conjuntos románicos existentes en la Provincia de Pontevedra. Esta obra proporciona datos ciertos y ordenados para posteriores estudios de síntesis sobre el románico en Galicia y aún de toda España. El libro contiene numerosa documentación gráfica: abundantes planos axiométricos en los monumentos principales, esquemas y expresivas...

Con esta obra se pretende abordar, de modo técnico, por qué es necesaria la conservación de la naturaleza, como herramienta que contribuye al desarrollo de la sostenibilidad.