Carlos Obregón Santacilia

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...

Life and work of polemic architect and urbanist Meyer (b. Switzerland), one of the most important functionalists of the 1920's. The former director of the Bauhaus, he worked for the Post-Revolutionary Regimes in Mexico as the director of the Instituto del Urbanismo y Planification from 1942 through 1949, while also becoming the editor of the collective graphic workshop Taller de Grafica Popular (TGP) from 1947 to 1949. Many plates of his architectural designs and the structural diagrams Meyer used for the Bauhaus and in IUP in Mexico.

Efímera por naturaleza, juego constante entre el ser y el parecer, la moda es sinónimo de cambio continuo. Con la irrupción de los medios de comunicación masiva, su influencia se cumplió de manera notable. De fenómeno de elites mutó a industria poderosa, en un proceso mundial del que la Argentina participa cada vez más activamente. Historia de la moda y el diseño argentino desde 1776 ofrece un panorama de la vestimenta urbana desde la colonia hasta la actualidad. La moda como mecanismo de poder, la alta costura y el prêt-à-porter, las principales casas y los grandes nombres, las...

The present edition graphically documents the design, construction and installationof the mega main public library Biblioteca de México "José Vasconcelos" locatedin Mexico City. In 2001 a transformation project of the Biblioteca de México proposal had three main actions: the restoration of the La Ciudadela building, the construction of a more modern and larger building and the establishment of an interchange network between the public libraries in México, where the new library was to be the central node of a national network. The new library that includes surrounding botanical garden was...