Ciudades legibles

"No historical European city looks as modern as Berlin. Renovating and changing constantly, in the last one hundred years a notion of modernity in architecture peculiar to Berlin has developed in the German capital. In light of the multitude of meanings this term can have the present volume shows a broad spectrum of Modernism with its technical and constructive as well as formal and aesthetic innovations in the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century, marked by the great names of architecture, from Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe to Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid. Berlin...

Brief overview of ObregÑn's (b. Mexico) work as one of the most influencial Mexican born architects of the 20th century.

Una cuidada selección de proyectos recientes realizados por arquitectos, proporcionando un interesante panorama de lenguajes y técnicas aplicadas a mostrar una arquitectura factible, un verdadero reto, frente al aumento de costos de los terrenos urbanos la casa compacta es una respuesta sensata. Las memorias escritas por los propios arquitectos son conceptuales, muestran sus puntos de vista frente a una problemática similar, cada obra es mostrada exhaustivamente con plantas, cortes, vistas y fotos de detalles que ayudan a hacer más comprensiva su obra, material de documentación necesaria ...

Filled with pictures, sketches, and building plans, this tribute to an extraordinary Colombian architect presents 12 of his most significant projects spanning the decade before his death in October 2007. The buildings highlighted in this work include the National University of Colombia's department of humanities graduate school building, the Virgilio Barco public library in Bogotá, and Salmona's vacation home in Riofrío. Lleno de dibujos, esbozos, y planes de edificación , este tributo a un extraordinario arquitecto colombiano presenta 12 de sus proyectos más significativos desde la...