Manuel Brullet

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 number of the monographic series is dedicated to restoration specialist, architect and watercolor painter Villa Chávez (b. Mexico). This extensive study of Villa Chávez life and architecture is divided in 2 parts: the first reviews his academic career and his professional practice in Guadalajara and Colima. A second part reviews in detail his restoration projects, his architecture, his open space interventions and his pictorial production (watercolors and drawings). Amongst other academic contributions Villa Chávez founded the School of Architecture in the University of Colima and was ...

Tratare de explicar que sentido tiene el agrupar arquitectos tan dispares. Mi intencion era el estudiar aquellos arquitectos cuya influencia se ha hecho sentir mas en estos ultimos anos, aquellos que acapararon la atencion de los estudiantes, cuya obra se ha discutido y ha interesado mas.

Una de las cosas más importantes de este libro es que propone una estructura abierta de trabajo, un mecanismo de análisis que admite la investigación colectiva o individual, la aplicación académica o la pura especulación intelectual. En efecto, se trata de una serie de ensayos –o pequeñas reflexiones– que insinúan todo un territorio posible de exploración futura; un grupo de ""páginas"" en las que se examina un término o un concepto, manteniendo siempre la posibilidad de establecer múltiples conexiones entre ellos, o de aislar, segregar o clasificar los ensayos según la...