El agua en Toledo y su entorno

Traces the career of the turn of the century Spanish architect, shows his designs for homes, apartments, schools, and churches, and discusses his unique, organic style

En la victoriosa América de la posguerra, origen de la nueva configuración del mundo occidental, surgió una singular obra que iba a representar la abstracción de los valores universales de la arquitectura moderna. La construcción de la Lever House en el Nueva York de 1950 no sólo iba a propiciar un punto de inflexión en la Historia del rascacielos y de la arquitectura corporativa americana, definiría a su vez un nuevo paradigma a partir del cual se establecerían generalizados modelos para la construcción del futuro. La oportuna confluencia entre los acentos pragmáticos del mundo...

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...

The Magic Box, carried out by Dominique Perrault Architecture, is more than a public sports facility. It is a whole conceptual, urbanistic and constructive manifesto through the insertion of a radically contemporary building in a sensitive environment, which has helped to regenerate the southern edge of the city of Madrid and to round off the urban banks of the Manzanares River. The book includes unpublished texts by Andreas Ruby (a didactic essay) and Hans Ulrich Ibrist (an exclusive interview). It also includes a technical dossier dedicated to the construction of the building highly...