El agua en Toledo y su entorno

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 The book includes unpublished texts by Andreas Ruby (a didactic essay) and Hans Ulrich Ibrist (an exclusive interview).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

"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...

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...

Rafael Guastavino (1842 1908) nació en Valencia y estudió en Barcelona. Allí realizó sus primeras obras con un empleo extensivo de bóvedas tabicadas, que el consideraba un modo Acohesivo distinto de la construcción tradicional. En 1881 emigró América y fundó una empresa para la construcción de bóvedas tabicadas. Fue un exitó y participó en la construcción algunos de los edificios americanos más importantes. El presente volumen recoge la traducción al castellano de os dos libros que publicó en América: El ensayo sobre la construcción cohesiva de 1892 y la Función de la...