Los tiempos del espacio

Text (in Spanish) and images complement each other to create a narrative thread that offers informative insights into the architect's intellectual and visual imagination and expands our understanding of Olgiati's oeuvre.

"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...

"Pioneros del diseño" busca explorar la figura del diseñador industrial remontándose a sus orígenes, proponiendo un recorrido a través de los diferentes movimientos y centros formativos en los que se gestó y consolidó, hasta llegar a la libertad creativa de los primeros diseñadores industriales estadounidenses. Es éste un libro que brinda la oportunidad de adentrarse en la historia de colectivos creativos como la Deutscher Werkbund, los Wiener Werkstätte, o la Bauhaus, y que a la vez incide en el papel que desempeñaron algunos de los diseñadores más relevantes en Estados Unidos...

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...