ArquiMática

Reference honoring the cultural and architecture legacy of Daz Morales (b. Mexico) in the centenary of his birth. The present catalogue complements the book "Ignacio Diaz, su pensamiento" and is the result of an exhaustive research in the archive of the Diaz Morales family, examining a large number of documents and selecting for this publication the most representative. The drawings, documents, photographs, plans and elevations of each project are chronologically organized and represent the 7 decades of designs and architectural projects by the noted architect.

El cronista, minucioso contador de lo acaecido, apoyado en una prosa que discurre por la mirada sensible del arquitecto y la velada metáfora del poeta, deja constancia y nos recuerda con Maurice Blanchot "que todo lo que nos proponemos, todo lo que hemos adquirido, todo lo que somos, todo lo que se alce sobre la tierra y el cielo, retorna a lo insignificante".

Catálogo de la exposición celebrada en Madrid por su nombramiento como doctor Honoris Causa por la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. El libro recoge en forma sistemática la obra de Félix Candela, mostrando un especial énfasis en los procesos constructivos de estructuras laminares. Profusamente ilustrado con dibujos y fotografías, saca a la luz una gran cantidad de material que permanecía injustamente olvidado en los archivos. Fundamental para los interesados en la obra de Candela o en la construcción laminar.

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...