Los tiempos del espacio

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 present edition publishes part of the research papers presented during the "Seminario de Investigación Arquitectura para la Producción" organized by the university of Michoacán between 2001 and 2002 that included the participation of national and international academics. The book gathers 23 collective and individual multidisciplinary works that examine from various perspectives the history of architecture in rural areas. Works are mainly focused in the colonial territory of the ex-bishopry of Michoacán divided in 4 main topics: Space, settlements, technology and environment and...

The book examines the long, productive and stormy relationship architect Le Corbusier had with Argentina and the series of events in consequence. His Argentinean disciples Jorge Ferrari Hardoy, Juan Kurchan and Antonio Bonet, although influenced by the master architect had their own architectonic and urban ideas. The book examines the "Austral Net" created towards the productive, plural and complex relationship of these 4 personages where the central figure is the famed Swiss architect. The book is chronologically organized and includes a selection of the most important architecture...

La piel arquitectónica ¿puede tener vida propia? ¿Cómo ha cambiado el rostro de nuestros edificios y de nuestras ciudades en los últimos años? ¿Cuáles son las principales causas de las transformaciones que afectan a los límites? La autora nos propone una lectura de la fachada como máscara de la arquitectura, filtro en el que se registran los devenires naturales y los cambios impuestos por la evolución tecnológica, el consumo y la moda. Un recorrido que nos conduce desde la máscara primitiva a la máscara electrónica, entendida como interfaz entre el cuerpo y el paisaje natural y ...