El principio del revestimiento

Se reúnen en este volumen artículos escritos por su autor durante sus veinte años de ejercicio profesional y docente. El artículo que da nombre al libro expresa una sospecha que ha guiado muchas de sus experiencias arquitectónicas: el descubrimiento personal de la arquitectura nos lleva por nombres y caminos que nunca nos contaron antes y, una vez transitados, esos caminos tampoco son tan claros. ¿Es posible que haya toda otra hilatura de la arquitectura moderna que construya un relato muy diferente? ¿Es posible quizá siquiera hablar de historia, cuando la arquitectura la va...

Text (in Spanish) and images complement each other to create a narrative thread that offers informative insights into the architect's intellectual and visual imagination and expands our understanding of Olgiati's oeuvre.

A dazzling oasis of neon, there's always something happening in this desert hot spot. In recent years Las Vegas has been reinvigorated with an influx of hip new hotels, restaurants, clubs and casinos. Day or night there's always a scene! With savvy and panache, this insider guide shows you how to get past the velvet rope and into the spotlight.

A compilation of texts by Professor Julio Arroyo previously presented in different academic meetings make up the present edition centered in public spaces in contemporary cities and the architecture that is concomitant, taking as a study reference the city of Santa Fe. Public spaces are a crucial category of urban life. However, in contemporary cities inconsistencies and contradictions prevail against the ethical postulates that define them -social cohesion, democratic inclusion, free expression, symbolic representation of citizen values- and the phenomena of what is public, dissociated in...