Le Corbusier, promenades

Como es sabido, el diseño surge como consecuencia lógica del desarrollo industrial de las sociedades tecnológicamente más avanzadas y puede explicarse, por tanto, en función de esa relación causa-efecto. Sin negar su obvia dependencia de tiempo y lugar, las razones del diseño, sus lecturas e interpretaciones, no se agotan en el exclusivo ejercicio metonímico, desde fuera, sino que invitan a ser entendidas también desde dentro, a partir de su propia realidad física y la reflexión que en ellas palpita. El libro adopta este criterio en su parte esencial: emparentar realizaciones...

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. ...

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.

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...

Arquitectura y paisaje es un novedoso análisis del paisajismo europeo que aporta, por primera vez, un estudio conceptual que hace especial hincapié en la tridimensionalidad del jardín. La información sobre los diferentes proyectos se ha recabado utilizando métodos de investigación científicos que han permitido realizar comparaciones topográficas de los diferentes jardines en los periodos más influyentes del paisajismo europeo. Este estudio examina el "plan racional" de la villa italiana del renacimiento (siglos XV y XVI), el "diseño formal" que alcanza su cenit en el jardín barroco ...