Casas internacional 183: Extremadura

Text (in Spanish) and images complement each other to create a narrative thread that offers informative insights into the architect's intellectual and visual imagination and expands our understanding of Olgiati's oeuvre.

La ciudad invisible nos invita a explorar de manera inédita los edificios en los que vivimos, las calles que recorremos y las aceras por las que andamos, examinando los orígenes y otras historias fascinantes que hay detrás de todos aquellos objetos familiares que permiten el buen funcionamiento de nuestra sociedad, desde las redes eléctricas y las fuentes de agua, hasta las señales de las calles. Magníficamente ilustrado, este libro cautivará a cualquiera que sienta curiosidad por el diseño, el urbanismo y las maravillas desconocidas del mundo que les rodea. « La ciudad invisible...

Visiting an exhibition by Leonardo Nierman is penetrating a space that invites us to dream in infinities, to discover exteriors and interiors of cosmic worlds. The exhibition Genesis de un Sueno (Genesis of a Dream) mounted at the Contemporary University Museum of Art in Mexico City conveyed such sensations to visitors. Running from May through August of 1996, it featured three hundred of Nierman's works spanning forty years and was reinstalled by popular demand through January 1997. Its beauty and mystery are now captured in this elegant volume. Nierman: Genesis de un Sueno is a celebration...

A Compilation of 30 Innovative Architectonic Inventions in Catalonia. The architecture produced in Catalonia has often been in the vanguard of Europe, especially since Barcelona hosted the 1992 Olympics. This book is an exciting overview of innovative spaces and techniques made in Catalonia, presenting a cross section of 'products' as well as the buildings and environments for which they were conceived. The products solve specific program requirements, new social demands, environmental needs, budget limitations and design aspirations to improve on the status quo. They are proving grounds of...