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This book revolves around the drawings and scale models especially selected by architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha, who was conferred the degree of Doctorate Honoris Causa by the Universidad Nacional del Litoral in 2009. The personal selection done by PMdR resulted in a publishing project that included the participation of a group of academics from Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina convened so that, by means of short texts, freely elaborated their perspective on those drawings. The book is, therefore, the result of a collective work whose purpose is to think the architecture from its most common...

200 colour photos and plans ”One of a series of authoritative pocket guides introduced only last fall, the Paris and : guide provides tourists and professionals alike with an overview of new and notable architecture and interior design in "the city of light." More than sixty buildings-governmental and residential, commercial and religious-by renowned architects such as Mario Botta, Jean Nouvel, Renzo Piano, Tadao Ando and I. M. Pei to name a few, are profiled and accompanied by color photographs. Easy to use and attractively designed with flexi covers, these CD-sized gems will be a...

Revisión de la arquitectura de Richard J. Neutra desde unos presupuestos teóricos que apuntan a la arquitectura como resultado de un proceso de creación natural, entendida tanto en su acepción de perteneciente a la Naturaleza como en aquella otra que habla de una cierta sencillez de la misma.

The subject of this artist's sketchbook is an artistic and environmental project that was inaugurated by Cristina Iglesias on November 6, 2010. It concerns an underwater labyrinth, consisting of three submerged rooms built in cement, in the waters off the Espiritu Santo Island in Baja California's Candelero Bay. This house will slowly be inhabited by life. The project was promoted by the Fundación Mexicana para la Educación Ambiental A.C. (Fundea), in collaboration with the marine biologists and conservationists of the La Paz Coasts and The San Diego Oceanography Institute. This portfolio...

Una nueva manera de entender el espacio arquitectónico y urbano ha emergido en las últimas décadas, como base para superar el Movimiento Moderno y la teoría Posmoderna, arrancando la teoría y práctica de arquitectura y urbanismo del estancamiento en que se mueven con propuestas repetitivas, formalistas y de supuesto significado inmediato, como respuestas propias del simulacro de modernidad y sujetas a las formas mercantiles de producción de la ciudad y la edificación. El pseudo racionalismo de la acaparación por la arquitectura y la edificación de los estilos del Movimiento Moderno, ...