Ciudad Memoria y Paisaje

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.

David Bestué recupera en este libro un formato totalmente desacreditado en la actualidad, el de las “Historias Nacionales de Arquitectura”. Su texto imita el tono didáctico de esta literatura, con sus etapas bien definidas y su desarrollo lineal. Sin embargo, usa este lenguaje de forma irónica al subvertir los lugares comunes de la historiografía, creando un recorrido poco ortodoxo, recuperando ideas olvidadas y revisando algunos tópicos que se repiten incansablemente en los manuales. Es un trabajo que busca entender cómo se ha dibujado el paisaje que nos rodea. Una lectura fresca y ...

Rem Koolhaas, fundador de OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture), es uno de los arquitectos contemporáneos cuyo trabajo profesional y obra teórica ha ejercido mayor influencia en la arquitectura contemporánea. Este libro reúne una conferencia y un seminario celebrados en la Rice School of Architecture donde Koolhaas discute las implicaciones urbanas y arquitectónicas de la construcción de lo enorme, utilizando para ello tres ejemplos de proyectos a gran escala: la terminal marítima de Zeebrugge, la Biblioteca de Francia y el Centro ZKM de Karlsruhe. El libro reúne, de una manera...

A study of each phase of the prolific trajectory of architect Pani (b. Mexico). A strong follower of Le Corbusier principles and whose modernist and grand scale urban and construction designs allowed him to construct in Mexico the first international hotel, the first multi family housing complex, the first condominium and the first satellite city. His architectural legacy includes more than 130 projects covering all types of buildings: housing, schools, hospitals, airports, commercial, office and urban, designs. All photographs (black and white 8x10 plaques ) in this catalogue were shot by...