Gaudí

La arquitectura ha nacido, crecido y desarrollado en la línea limítrofe de la materia y el aire, ahí han estado sus aciertos y desengaños, plagando la tierra de un código hermético que ha ocultado el conocimiento, como si se hubiera perdido la estela del conquistador, olvidado en la distancia. Se han creado abismos e infinitos. Abismos donde sin duda llega el aire e infinitos donde para que lo sean tiene que llegar la materia. Desde unos llegaremos a los otros. Ese es el cometido.

Mexico City Architecture Guide is a compilation of more than 150 works of architecture dating from the early 20th century up to the present day. To help orient readers, the guide is divided into five areas and includes seven maps to create a comprehensive panorama of the Mexican megalopolis. Each project includes details about the relevant architects, location and year of construction, as well as public transport information. The texts, photographs and maps created for this guide give fresh shape to the city. Now available in an English-language edition for the first time, Mexico City...

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style and accomplishments written by a leading architecture critic. Then, approximately twenty noteworthy works and projects are discussed by the architect and presented in detail with site plans, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.

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.