Virginio Colombo

"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...

Traces the career of the turn of the century Spanish architect, shows his designs for homes, apartments, schools, and churches, and discusses his unique, organic style

Located in Mexico City, Tatiana Bilbao Estudio is well known internationally for its use of traditional Mexican construction techniques, the highly sculptural effects of its buildings and its unusually collaborative approach toward each client. Founded by Tatiana Bilbao (born 1972) in 2004, its completed buildings include the Gratitude Open Chapel in La Ruta del Peregrino, Gabriel Orozco's house in Roca Blanca and the botanical garden in Culiacan. The enormous production of ideas and designs that takes place there is directed to different spaces, in which the architecture is deeply humanized. ...

A lo largo del siglo XVI Sevilla recibió dos visitas reales de gran trascendencia: en 1526 la del emperador Carlos V para contraer matrimonio con la princesa Isabel de Portugal; en 1570 la de Felipe II, que se encontraba en Andalucía tras la pacificación de las Alpujarras. En ambas ocasiones, la ciudad se revistió de galas clasicistas mediante una serie de arquitecturas efímeras. A través del estudio de esos programas decorativos se pueden deducir las aspiraciones de Sevilla, que en un breve lapso de tiempo iba a experimentar un notable crecimiento y una auténtica metamorfosis. En...