El Palacio Nacional

La actualidad e interés de cuanto este libro plantea quedaría demostrada con solo llevar a cabo una visión retrospectiva de algunos aspectos del desarrollo de la restauración en nuestro país.

Cinco ensayos sobre la ciudad contemporánea, sus problemas, su definición, la evolución reciente de las periferias urbanas. Reflexiones geográficas apoyadas en textos literarios, entre los cuales los de Borges no son los menores. Ilustrado con grabados de Piranesi. Índice: Presentación.- Borges y la geografía del siglo XXI.- La definición de lo urbano. La geografía y las periferias urbanas. Reflexiones para arquitectos.- Gritos amargos sobre la ciudad.- Dibujar el mundo.

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.

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.