Ideas fuerza para la organización de obra

A compilation of essays that have been written by academics and professionals; from various points of view, perspectives and theories into post-modern architecture.

Entornos Vitales es un manual practico que presenta graficamente una serie de criterios y situaciones que permiten enriquecer los proyectos con un mayor nivel de permeabilidad, variedad, versatilidad, riqueza visual y otras cualidades que hacen de un espacio arquitectonico un entorno mas humano y vital. Los autores parten de la denuncia de la deshumanizacion de la arquitectura moderna y plantean una serie de medidas practicas para conseguir disenos mas proximos al ciudadano. En este sentido, no se pretende establecer ni una teoria ni una historia de la arquitectura, sino aportar un conjunto...

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...

The author describes and discusses the influence Le Corbusier in Uruguay through a series of trips, the first done by the Swiss-French architect in 1929, and the remaining ones from the three Uruguayan architects who joined the workshop of the notable architect: Carlos Gómez Gavazzo, in 1933, Justino Serralta, in 1948, and Carlos Clémot, in 1949. The study also includes aspects of Antonio Bonet Castellana's trip, who was there in 1937 and in Uruguay from 1945 to 1948, and additionally analyzes what Eladio Dieste learned from his "Le Courvoisier partners" Serralta and Clémot as well as the...