Design de Interiores Contemporâneo

"Taking over the baton from their mentor and friend Eduardo Chillida, the architects Juan Carlos Sancho (San Sebastián, 1957) and Sol Madridejos (Madrid, 1958) have pursued a sensitive dialectic between matter and void that lies at the foundations of a fertile formal laboratory, one where the fold is an instrument with great potential in the attainment of structural, spatial, and material coherence. In these pages Arquitectura Viva presents a selection of four Spanish works – ranging from a small chapel to a large educational complex – in which the duo composes variations on the same...

This volume features 25 architectural works constructed in Chile by architect Valdés between 1963 and 2007. It also comprises a series of texts that the author gathered after several conversations with the architect from 2001 to 2006, in a first-hand account of the creative process established by the architect about design, material, construction and space.

Dado que la obra arquitectónica debe ser concebida como un todo formal, funcional y técnico, la Estructura, tomada como una de esas partes indivisibles de la misma, debe considerarse desde el inicio de su concepción hasta su materialización. Se debe adquirir una cierta capacidad para poder comprender y relacionar las cargas aplicadas y los esfuerzos resultantes y, a partir de esto, diseñar la estructura óptima. Además, es preciso reconocer que, el conocimiento, la intuición, el razonamiento y la creatividad son ingredientes básicos del proceso de diseño estructural. Es por ello que...

Luxurious edition that reviews the history and architecture of the Mexican governmental building "Palacio Nacional" and the rich artistic and political patrimony it holds.