El agua en Toledo y su entorno

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.

This well-illustrated Spanish-language book retraces the development and magnificent flowering of Mayan architecture in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize over the period 300 B.C.-A.D. 1500, showing the extraordinary synchronicity of this architecture with that of other Old World societies. Featured cities include Tikal, the earliest Mayan religious center; Palenque, famous for its ceremonial center; and Copan, with its hieroglyphic staircase featuring 2,500 glyphs.

This volume features 25 architectural works constructed in Chile by architect Valdés between 1963 and 2007. It also comprises a series of texts that the author gathered after several conversations with the architect from 2001 to 2006, in a first-hand account of the creative process established by the architect about design, material, construction and space.

El trabajo versa sobre la necesidad de entender, analizar y valorar la Construcción Social del Hábitat como una herramienta fundamental a la hora de construir un orden urbano basado en la inclusión, en la apropiación responsable de la ciudad, y en el derecho a la diferencia que, desde el planteamiento topo (lugar) - fílico (afectivo) que acompaña estas páginas, preyace en los postulados de toda auténtica gobernabilidad democrática. La reflexión pretende abordar una mirada crítica y propositiva que, apoyada en la evaluación de dos casos de estudio: el de México D.F. y de Bogotá,...