La espiral del sincretismo

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.

"Taking over the baton from their mentor and friend Eduardo Chillida, the architects Juan Carlos Sancho (San Sebastián, 1957) and Sol Madridejos (Madrid, 1958) have pursued a sensitive dialectic between matter and void that lies at the foundations of a fertile formal laboratory, one where the fold is an instrument with great potential in the attainment of structural, spatial, and material coherence. In these pages Arquitectura Viva presents a selection of four Spanish works – ranging from a small chapel to a large educational complex – in which the duo composes variations on the same...

Este libro ahonda en una época definitiva en la vida de Rogelio Salmona. Testimonios, documentos de archivo e imágenes complementan e ilustran los hechos más relevantes ocurridos en la etapa previa a su ejercicio profesional en Colombia y anticipan su consecuente postura y los planteamientos de su arquitectura y de su idea de ciudad. En conversación con el arquitecto, recupera experiencias tempranas en las que se ponen de relieve el papel desempeñado por Pierre Francastel y el impacto de sus cursos en la Sorbona, así como de los viajes de estudio. Estas experiencias se concretaron en la ...

"The book examines the life and architectonic and didactic legacy of noted architect O'Gorman (b. Mexico) with critical texts by expert scholars regarding some of his ideas on the aesthetics of architecture with a special emphasis in public primary schools. Includes a reprint of the booklet titled "Escuelas Primarias 1932" by O'Gorman as a report while working for the Mexican Ministry of Education (SEP) of the construction of 28 public primary schools in Mexico City."--Provided by vendor.