Apuntes de Fotografía: Recursos Y Técnicas Básicas de Fotografía Analógica

This book revolves around the drawings and scale models especially selected by architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha, who was conferred the degree of Doctorate Honoris Causa by the Universidad Nacional del Litoral in 2009. The personal selection done by PMdR resulted in a publishing project that included the participation of a group of academics from Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina convened so that, by means of short texts, freely elaborated their perspective on those drawings. The book is, therefore, the result of a collective work whose purpose is to think the architecture from its most common...

The remarkably prolific career of an innovative young Chilean architect is profiled in this engaging study. Born in 1965 and in professional practice since 1991, this architect's impact on his native landscape is observed mainly in a series of private houses located in some of the most sublime sites in Chile. The forceful yet austere character of his design approach and its radical relationship to surrounding landscape elements can be fully appreciated by viewing this book's fine pictorial panorama.

Proyectar y construir junto al mar es un gran desafío. Más allá del programa específico, juegan las condiciones climáticas: los fuertes vientos o la erosión producida por la arena y la sal; y, por otro lado, el entorno: respetar la naturaleza y el suelo, ya sea de arena o rocoso, influirá en nuestra obra. Hoy la responsabilidad del arquitecto, además del compromiso con su cliente, es con el uso racional de los materiales y la optimización de los recursos naturales y energéticos, durante su construcción y, también, en toda su vida útil como vivienda. La idea que prevalece ante la...

Architectural guide to the city of Guadalajara, with a selection of close to 300 buildings representative of all time periods. The guide is divided in 3 sections: the first, the largest and medullar part of the book is the presentation of the buildings; a second section is an inventory of buildings important in the history of the city but now disappeared, and a third section includes location maps with recommended itineraries and routes. Each entry includes the name, date and brief history of the building and the name of the architect.