Despacio

This catalogue appears on the occasion of the exhibition of Daniel Libeskind's design for the Berlin Museum with Jewish Museum, opening in 1992 in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

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...

Las recientes obras de rehabilitación y adaptación a usos varios acometidas por la Universidad de Sevilla en el que fuera Pabellón de Brasil de la Exposición Iberoamericana de Sevilla de 1929, han permitido recuperar para la ciudad un edificio de fuerte personalidad que se encontraba en un lamentable estado de abandono como consecuencia del paso del tiempo y las diversas funciones a que ha sido destinado.

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 The book includes unpublished texts by Andreas Ruby (a didactic essay) and Hans Ulrich Ibrist (an exclusive interview).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...