Frei Otto

El presente libro reúne una serie muy diversa de textos que se han dividido en tres grandes apartados temáticos. El primero es el dedicado a la arquitectura de los grandes maestros, y que insiste sobre todo en tres autores que siguen siendo claves de nuestro panorama y de nuestro quehacer, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe y Alvar Aalto, completados también con Scharoun y con los arquitectos nórdicos más famosos entendidos como un trabajo colectivo. Todos los textos indagan fundamentalmente acerca de la forma de hacer arquitectura -de la forma de proyectar- de estos importantes personajes, ...

Colombian architect Rogelio Salmona has translated pragmatic and poetic concepts and intentions into physical form. These result from the architect's deep communion with and understanding of the materials and processes, as well as of the historic-cultural context in which his architectural intervention takes place. Salmona's oeuvre, including such notable examples as the Torres del Parque (1967) in Bogota, the Presidential House for Illustrious Guests (1981) in Cartagena, the Quimbaya Museum (1983) in Armenia and the National Archive of the Nation (1992) in Bogota, is without doubt one of the ...

En una aproximación por fragmentos, que interroga las partes antes que el todo, el trabajo cuestiona los métodos convencionales de análisis y propone nuevas formas de leer y de escribir la...

"Critical study and research of the life and architecture of Urzúa (b. Mexico) who along architects Luis Barragán and Ignacio Díaz Morales started the localartistic movement known as "regionalismo" in Guadalajara. The edition is divided in 3 sections: his life, closely related to his architecture, an illustrated catalogue of his life production and acollection of facsimile copies of documents from his personal archives"--Provided by vendor.