Imágenes de España, reflejos de Argentina

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.

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...

Excerpt from Castilla la Nueva ON galana é inmejorable frase la describe el Sr. Quadrado en estos términos: Castilla la Nueva carece, más que ninguna otra provincia, de centro de unidad y de característica fisonomía. Enclavada en el centro de la península, el mar no bate ninguno de sus confines, ni penetra hasta sus yermas y silenciosas llanuras el rumor y vida que hierve siempre á lo largo de las costas; Con arreglo al plan realizado por el Sr. La Fuente, en la nueva ordenación de esta obra, dejamos en la forma corriente los capítulos y apartados debidos á la pluma del Sr....

"Barcelona" presents a study-in text and photographic image-of one of the most architecturally fascinating and impressive cities in the world. From the Gaudí cathedral to Albert Viaplana and Helio Piñón's recent Centre de Cultura Contemporània, from the Palau de la Musica to the Dali Museum, what we find is a city whose magnificent strength lies in the coexistence of its amazingly diverse and historically disparate variety of structures. The city of Barcelona absorbs new influences and maintains traditions organically, avoiding a sense of fragmentation for a sense of exuberance and...