Los tiempos del espacio

"No historical European city looks as modern as Berlin. Renovating and changing constantly, in the last one hundred years a notion of modernity in architecture peculiar to Berlin has developed in the German capital. In light of the multitude of meanings this term can have the present volume shows a broad spectrum of Modernism with its technical and constructive as well as formal and aesthetic innovations in the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century, marked by the great names of architecture, from Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe to Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid. Berlin...

La idea del recinto sagrado, sitio de encuentro de los mortales con sus dioses, es común a todas las religiones, a todas las creencias. Más allá de su forma, tamaño, implantación y ornamentación la arquitectura sagrada es, por definición, el lugar depositario de la tradición esotérica. Es el espacio donde el hombre busca el conocimiento de los misterios, de lo inaccesible; de este modo el templo se constituye en el ámbito en el que se guardan todos aquellos elementos que hacen a la tradición siendo su símbolo más significativo precisamente la imposibilidad de acceder a ciertos...

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...