La arquitectura y el proceso de diseño

Located in Mexico City, Tatiana Bilbao Estudio is well known internationally for its use of traditional Mexican construction techniques, the highly sculptural effects of its buildings and its unusually collaborative approach toward each client. Founded by Tatiana Bilbao (born 1972) in 2004, its completed buildings include the Gratitude Open Chapel in La Ruta del Peregrino, Gabriel Orozco's house in Roca Blanca and the botanical garden in Culiacan. The enormous production of ideas and designs that takes place there is directed to different spaces, in which the architecture is deeply humanized. ...

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...

Entre 1970 y 1990 Nueva York experimentó una profunda transformación urbana que la convirtió en una ciudad global, sede del capital financiero y corporativo multinacional. Los promotores de esta reconversión, que alteraría tanto la conformación social como las funciones de la antigua ciudad industrial, la definieron como un «renacimiento», un discurso de éxito que obviaba, sin embargo, los traumáticos efectos que dicha reestructuración provocó en un amplio sector de población, atrapado en procesos urbanos de abandono y gentrification. «Un día salí a pasear por el barrio y...

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style and accomplishments written by a leading architecture critic. Then, approximately twenty noteworthy works and projects are discussed by the architect and presented in detail with site plans, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.