La enseñanza del diseño en comunicación visual

Ask Americans to think of a famous architect and the person they are most likely to name is Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright's work, his reputation, and his long and colorful career have made him an icon of modern American architecture. But despite his status as America's most celebrated architect, his influence throughout an active practice spanning the years 1896 to 1959 is so wide and complex that it has been difficult to grasp fully. The essays in this book look not at the United States, the context usually associated with Wright, but at countries around the globe. Anthony Alofsin has assembled ...

A través de los croquis que componen este libro, su autor, Rodrigo Pérez de Arce, no solo nos enseña a mirar la ciudad de Valparaíso con otros ojos, sino que además deja en evidencia su cariño por el puerto. La obsesión y la dedicación por recorrer los edificios, plazas y cerros queda representada en trazos que, en suma, componen la perspectiva de su autor y la mirada crítica que pone sobre ellos en sus anotaciones. En definitiva, se expone al dibujo como herramienta de observación. Con un registro que data desde los inicios de los años setenta, la representación y el análisis de ...

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...

"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...