Introducción a la arquitectura contemporánea

Este libro recoge una conversación que Juan María Songel mantuvo con Frei Otto en su taller-estudio de Warmbronn en 2004, junto a un elocuente texto, 'Fundamentos de una arquitectura del mañana', publicado en 1997. El material reunido en este libro constituye una ocasión única para conocer las posiciones teóricas del arquitecto alemán y descubrir su vasta y prolífica experiencia. A lo largo de los textos se abordan temas de indudable interés y actualidad, como los procesos físicos de generación de la forma y su vigencia con respecto a las posibilidades de los ordenadores, las...

The incredible life story of one of the 20th century's most important designers, who knew everyone from Hemingway to Picasso. Ettore Sottsass and the Poetry of Things chronicles the life and times of one of the most important, prolific, and, above all, interesting designers and architects of the 20th century. Sottsass (1917-2007), originally trained as an architect and worked as a design consultant for Olivetti, where he developed the iconic Valentine typewriter, before going on to found the Memphis Group in the 1980s, ushering in an era of influential designs in furniture, ceramics and...

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.

"CEDODAL in collaboration with the Estrada family organized an exhibition and the present accompanying book that examines the life and professional career of Argentinean architect Estrada. The book gathers various authors who review in their texts the influence German architect Hermann Jansen had over the young Estrada, his integration to the National Forests project (1934) and his legacy in the planning of urban centers, infrastructure works and tourism and hotel architecture particularly in the Patagonian region. Estrada's culmination was the Civic Center of Bariloche, (today historic and...