Havana, Cuba, an architectural guide

Text (in Spanish) and images complement each other to create a narrative thread that offers informative insights into the architect's intellectual and visual imagination and expands our understanding of Olgiati's oeuvre.

Elegimos la riqueza y polisemia que conlleva la palabra "imágenes", pues nos hemos propuesto abordar el estudio acerca de los imaginarios que sobre España y "lo español" se construyeran en y desde nuestro país. Queremos abarcar en un doble juego de reflejos, como los de los espejos enfrentados que generan de proyecciones infinitas, un mecanismo de percepción e interpretación acerca de qué España –o mejor aún qué Españas- fuimos capaces de imaginar juntos, españoles y argentinos a lo largo de nuestra común historia en el campo de la arquitectura y el arte. Creemos que de esta...

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 ...

This series was the winner of the American Institute of Architects' prestigious "Award for Excellence in International Book Publishing". Each volume in this series is introduced with an essay on the architect, and a chronological or stylistic presentation of their most outstanding buildings and projects. No other series provides such a complete and concise summary of the world's leading architects' works. The volumes are fully illustrated in black-and-white with photos and project renderings.