Arquitectura y diseño

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.

El libro analiza y clarifica un tema hasta ahora un poco estudiado: el jardín como obra de arquitectura durante el Renacimiento italiano. Se acompaña de abundante material gráfico (más de 200 ilustraciones) y un índice de nombres.

El segundo volumen de Cristianismo, Historia y textualidad, la obra cumbre de Luis Vergara Anderson, explora la posibilidad de conciliar la tradición cristiana con la hindú del Vedanta-advaita, siguiendo las intuiciones de un par de monjes que vivieron para lograr este objetivo. Si cabe afirmar la Encarnación universal desde el cristianismo, podríamos encontrar una identidad insospechada entre ambas tradiciones religiosas. A la luz de un magnífico estudio técnico sobre la predicación de Jesús sobre el Reino de Dios, que recrea el estado del arte de la cuestión del Jesús histórico,...

Visiting an exhibition by Leonardo Nierman is penetrating a space that invites us to dream in infinities, to discover exteriors and interiors of cosmic worlds. The exhibition Genesis de un Sueno (Genesis of a Dream) mounted at the Contemporary University Museum of Art in Mexico City conveyed such sensations to visitors. Running from May through August of 1996, it featured three hundred of Nierman's works spanning forty years and was reinstalled by popular demand through January 1997. Its beauty and mystery are now captured in this elegant volume. Nierman: Genesis de un Sueno is a celebration...