Kids Design

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...

The author describes and discusses the influence Le Corbusier in Uruguay through a series of trips, the first done by the Swiss-French architect in 1929, and the remaining ones from the three Uruguayan architects who joined the workshop of the notable architect: Carlos Gómez Gavazzo, in 1933, Justino Serralta, in 1948, and Carlos Clémot, in 1949. The study also includes aspects of Antonio Bonet Castellana's trip, who was there in 1937 and in Uruguay from 1945 to 1948, and additionally analyzes what Eladio Dieste learned from his "Le Courvoisier partners" Serralta and Clémot as well as the...

Centrado en la génesis, el diseño, la construcción y el presente de la arquitectura que acoge el Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, el libro recorre setenta años de la historia Vitoria, desde los primeros impulsos de la estación de autobuses a principios de los años 30 del siglo pasado hasta la intensa actividad del centro-museo actual.

Este libro se realizó con el objetivo de dar a conocer tres proyectos de investigación aplicada, desarrollados entre los años 2006 y 2017 sobre la Región del Gran La Plata (Partidos de La Plata, Berisso y Ensenada y Consorcio Puerto La Plata) de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Fueron realizados por un equipo de investigadores, becarios y colaboradores del Centro de Investigaciones Urbanas y Territoriales de la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata entre dichos años. Cada proyecto aborda la Región, a partir de diferentes teorías y...