Casas internacional 158: Vicens + Ramos Arquitectos

Xavier Bordils (Castelló, 1939) has stood out for his contributions to promote and spread design, graphic design and packaging, as well as for his intense projectual activity. Convictions and preferences are summarised in the text that goes with his mark: ¿Xavier Bordils: anti-stylist design, graphic design, structural design, global design, utilitary design, industrial product design, sematic design, architectural design, design, blah, blah, blah.¿

City and Architecture, Six generations who built up the modern Latin America comes from the architecture and urban planning history developed in the Latin-American area between 1885 and 1975. This is an organized work from a method called by the author generational, which covers 90 years (six generations). The names of those generations, that each one of them covers a period of 15 years, are gathered together in the chapters names of the book. The exposition of the context of each historic period is connected with the analysis of the architecture work, which offers a wide outlook of the...

Sistemas arquitectónicos contemporáneos plantea una visión nueva de la arquitectura contemporánea -desde principios del siglo XX hasta principios del XXI- que parte de la crisis del objeto aislado y pone especial énfasis en las relaciones entre los edificios y en los valores del espacio público que definen. De este modo, el concepto de sistema reescribe una historia de la arquitectura reciente en función de su capacidad para desarrollar formas que se adapten mejor al contexto. En este libro se estudian ejemplos que se sitúan en una escala común entre la arquitectura, el urbanismo y...