Patrimonios, espacios y territorios

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.

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.

Perspectives on how the city is Imagined in Latin America. Focussing on Latin America as an urban case study, an examination of urban imaginaries and the construct of our relationships with cities. Perspectives from anthropologists, sociologists, artists, and psychologists.

Lo urbano (asociado indiscutiblemente al concepto de ciudad), constituido en virtud de la división social y espacial de las relaciones sociales de producción en un Estado nación en el que se localizan según estas lógicas las actividades comerciales, de servicios e industriales, entre otras; enfrenta una serie de transformaciones que hacen cada vez más complejo distinguir lo rural de lo urbano con la misma nitidez de antes, e impone grandes retos a los gobiernos y las comunidades asentadas en estos territorios. Este libro aporta una serie de elementos que permiten promover reflexiones...