Valparaíso. Un balcón urbano / An urban balcony

Xavier Bordils (Castelló, 1939) has stood out for his contributions to promote and spread design, graphic design and packaging, as well as for his intense projectual activity. Convictions and preferences are summarised in the text that goes with his mark: ¿Xavier Bordils: anti-stylist design, graphic design, structural design, global design, utilitary design, industrial product design, sematic design, architectural design, design, blah, blah, blah.¿

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...

Elegimos la riqueza y polisemia que conlleva la palabra "imágenes", pues nos hemos propuesto abordar el estudio acerca de los imaginarios que sobre España y "lo español" se construyeran en y desde nuestro país. Queremos abarcar en un doble juego de reflejos, como los de los espejos enfrentados que generan de proyecciones infinitas, un mecanismo de percepción e interpretación acerca de qué España –o mejor aún qué Españas- fuimos capaces de imaginar juntos, españoles y argentinos a lo largo de nuestra común historia en el campo de la arquitectura y el arte. Creemos que de esta...

"Barcelona" presents a study-in text and photographic image-of one of the most architecturally fascinating and impressive cities in the world. From the Gaudí cathedral to Albert Viaplana and Helio Piñón's recent Centre de Cultura Contemporània, from the Palau de la Musica to the Dali Museum, what we find is a city whose magnificent strength lies in the coexistence of its amazingly diverse and historically disparate variety of structures. The city of Barcelona absorbs new influences and maintains traditions organically, avoiding a sense of fragmentation for a sense of exuberance and...