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Xavier Bordils (Castelló, 1939) has stood out for his contributions to promote and spread design, graphic design and packaging, as well as for his intense projectual activity. Convictions and preferences are summarised in the text that goes with his mark: ¿Xavier Bordils: anti-stylist design, graphic design, structural design, global design, utilitary design, industrial product design, sematic design, architectural design, design, blah, blah, blah.¿

Deambular, siguiendo estrictamente el significado que nos da el DRAE, es ir de un lugar a otro sin un fin determinado. Posiblemente, pudiera parecer que ello supone caminar sin lógica, sin rumbo alguno. Realmente consiste en dedicar tiempo al hecho del recorrido, sin pretensión de llegar a un punto determinado. Es usual encontrar espacios "de pasos perdidos" en arquitecturas en las que la componente dialéctica o reflexiva tiene un papel configurador. Surgen así las girolas, deambulatorios o peristilos, dando cabida a un hecho eminentemente socrático: recorrer sin llegar a un final,...

En este volumen de la Coleccion Arquitectura y Humanidades, los autores nos acercan a reflexionar no solo en la genesis y cualidades de la casa, sino tambien nos hablan de las numerosas atrocidades que cometen los propios espacios domesticos contemporaneos a sus ocupantes porque no se miro por el ser humano en su esencia, en su necesidad de cobijo, de resguardo, de intimidad, de privacia, sino que, en nuestra creciente e imparable cultura urbana, el principal interes es el economico."

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 ...