Bogotá León de oro (1990-2006)

Em Acupuntura urbana, Jaime Lerner mostra que o planejamento é um projeto, que por melhor que seja não consegue gerar transformações imediatas. Quase sempre é uma centelha que inicia uma ação e a subseqüente propagação desta ação. É o que Lerner chama de uma boa acupuntura. Uma verdadeira acupuntura urbana.

"El Libro blanco de la accesibilidad se estructura en una serie de capítulos en los que, a modo de fichas, se estudian la mejora de la accesibilidad y la supresión de barreras arquitectónicas. Es el resultado de una iniciativa del Comité Olímpico Internacional y la Fundació Barcelona Olímpica destinada a analizar la accesibilidad de los Juegos Olímpicos y Paralímpicos celebrados en Barcelona en 1992. En la presente edición en lengua castellana muchas de las situaciones analizadas giran en torno al evento olímpico; pero la mayor parte de ellas tienen también aplicación directa en...

The author describes and discusses the influence Le Corbusier in Uruguay through a series of trips, the first done by the Swiss-French architect in 1929, and the remaining ones from the three Uruguayan architects who joined the workshop of the notable architect: Carlos Gómez Gavazzo, in 1933, Justino Serralta, in 1948, and Carlos Clémot, in 1949. The study also includes aspects of Antonio Bonet Castellana's trip, who was there in 1937 and in Uruguay from 1945 to 1948, and additionally analyzes what Eladio Dieste learned from his "Le Courvoisier partners" Serralta and Clémot as well as the...

In the immediate postwar years, a new type of modern architecture emerges. Beatriz Colomina presents domesticity as a potent new weapon in a changed architectural battlefield. This architecture becomes the property of the middle-class consumer bombarded with images of domestic bliss, a lifestyle campaign launched through recycled military techniques. The significance of architects like Charles and Ray Eames lies in their sensitivity to buildings and images both defining space. Colomina is Director of Princeton University's Architecture PhD program and acclaimed author of Privacy and Publicity ...