Manuel Brullet

This catalogue offers a chronological survey of the work constructed between 1984 and 1994 by the architect Jo Coenen (Heerlen, 1949), with offices in Eindhoven and Maastricht.

La arquitectura es una forma de escritura, cargada de signos, de yuxtapuestas grafías y de múltiples sentidos. Escritura de piedra pues –como la llamó un poeta–, la arquitectura es pasado construido, muros que cuentan, narrativa concreta. Los edificios aquí reseñados son grafías urbanas, porque están inscritos en los recodos de la ciudad, en sus rastros y en sus restos, en aquellos fragmentos que de nosotros mismos y de nuestros ancestros, que han quedado desperdigados por las calles en damero. Grafías como modo de escribir, de representar sonidos, viejos y ahogados bullicios que...

Visiting an exhibition by Leonardo Nierman is penetrating a space that invites us to dream in infinities, to discover exteriors and interiors of cosmic worlds. The exhibition Genesis de un Sueno (Genesis of a Dream) mounted at the Contemporary University Museum of Art in Mexico City conveyed such sensations to visitors. Running from May through August of 1996, it featured three hundred of Nierman's works spanning forty years and was reinstalled by popular demand through January 1997. Its beauty and mystery are now captured in this elegant volume. Nierman: Genesis de un Sueno is a celebration...

A compilation of texts by Professor Julio Arroyo previously presented in different academic meetings make up the present edition centered in public spaces in contemporary cities and the architecture that is concomitant, taking as a study reference the city of Santa Fe. Public spaces are a crucial category of urban life. However, in contemporary cities inconsistencies and contradictions prevail against the ethical postulates that define them -social cohesion, democratic inclusion, free expression, symbolic representation of citizen values- and the phenomena of what is public, dissociated in...