Hannes Meyer

Barcelona 1992-2004 offers a selection of chronologically arranged projects that provide an overview of the period that commences with the 1992 Olympic Games and culminates in the huge cultural event that is the Universal Forum of Cultures-Barcelona 2004. The selection has focused in particular on projects involving the city’s openness to the sea and those which have managed to adapt to its existing residential fabric. Presented as separate chapters are projects for new high-rise buildings and schemes for the 22@ plan and the Universal Forum of Cultures. The selection is preceded by a text...

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 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...

¿Y QUÉ SIGNIFICA REALMENTE ACCESIBILIDAD? Se dice comúnmente, ”es un hombre (o una mujer) educado(a)…”, porque sigue las reglas y costumbres sociales aceptadas. Una de las grandes premisas de la educación, más allá de informar, es formar. Educación según el Nuevo Pequeño Larousse Ilustrado (1) es “Acción de desarrollar las facultades físicas, intelectuales y morales”, más allá del acto de instruir. Asimismo es el acto de mostrar “conocimiento de los usos de la sociedad”