Arquitectura en Italia

Este catalogo recorre cronologicamente la obra construida desde 1959 hasta 1992 por el arquitecto Umberto Riva con despacho profesional en su ciudad natal.

The book is an historic and graphical account of the patios of "vecindad" (neighbourhood) in the port city of Veracruz, in a period that goes from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century. The foreword of this edition, states that the first record of a patio of a "vecindad" dates back to 1791, highlighting that those patios have seen the early years of musician and singer "Toña la Negra" and were the place of origin of the famous "picadas" from Veracruz, one of the most popular snacks of the jarocha traditional cuisine.

The Magic Box, carried out by Dominique Perrault Architecture, is more than a public sports facility. It is a whole conceptual, urbanistic and constructive manifesto through the insertion of a radically contemporary building in a sensitive environment, which has helped to regenerate the southern edge of the city of Madrid and to round off the urban banks of the Manzanares River. The book includes unpublished texts by Andreas Ruby (a didactic essay) and Hans Ulrich Ibrist (an exclusive interview). It also includes a technical dossier dedicated to the construction of the building highly...

Análisis de la situación de la arquitectura contemporánea, tanto en el plano de las ideas como en el de las realizaciones. Se pretende intervenir críticamente en la dialéctica de continuidad-ruptura que caracteriza la relación actual con las diversas tradiciones arquitectónicas, evaluando la revolución moderna que protagonizaron las vanguardias y los grandes maestros, así como, las revisiones posteriores. Igualmente se examina la ruptura con ese bagage, analizando hasta qué punto se corresponde nuestro momento histórico con el que fue propio de aquellas vanguardias.