Materiales de urbanismo 2011.13

El cronista, minucioso contador de lo acaecido, apoyado en una prosa que discurre por la mirada sensible del arquitecto y la velada metáfora del poeta, deja constancia y nos recuerda con Maurice Blanchot "que todo lo que nos proponemos, todo lo que hemos adquirido, todo lo que somos, todo lo que se alce sobre la tierra y el cielo, retorna a lo insignificante".

El interés por los espacios mínimos surge a partir de la experiencia personal de la autora en una vivienda de pequeñas dimensiones. Estos no deben ser espacios que se escojan por obligación, sino como experiencia voluntaria, al igual que el propio Le Corbusier elige su estancia mínima como lugar para pasar las vacaciones en Roquebrune-Cap-Martin. Se pretende poner en evidencia la influencia que tuvo Le Cabanon en la arquitectura y en la evolución de los espacios mínimos habitables, haciéndolos funcionar como una máquina en conjunto con los muebles que lo integran. Para ello se...

This book revolves around the drawings and scale models especially selected by architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha, who was conferred the degree of Doctorate Honoris Causa by the Universidad Nacional del Litoral in 2009. The personal selection done by PMdR resulted in a publishing project that included the participation of a group of academics from Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina convened so that, by means of short texts, freely elaborated their perspective on those drawings. The book is, therefore, the result of a collective work whose purpose is to think the architecture from its most common...

The present research work is based on original manuscripts and testimonies from architect González Gortázar (b. Mexico) regarding his transcendent architecture and urban designs. González Gortázar is considered at present one of the most important architects of México, creator of spaces and urban art that are now geometric symbols and references of the city of Guadalajara in México. The architect strongly practices the concept of "Space and Art" and where the city should never loose their social function for which it was originally conceived and constructed.