El espacio domestico: la mujer y la casa

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...

200 colour photos and plans ”One of a series of authoritative pocket guides introduced only last fall, the Paris and : guide provides tourists and professionals alike with an overview of new and notable architecture and interior design in "the city of light." More than sixty buildings-governmental and residential, commercial and religious-by renowned architects such as Mario Botta, Jean Nouvel, Renzo Piano, Tadao Ando and I. M. Pei to name a few, are profiled and accompanied by color photographs. Easy to use and attractively designed with flexi covers, these CD-sized gems will be a...

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 The book includes unpublished texts by Andreas Ruby (a didactic essay) and Hans Ulrich Ibrist (an exclusive interview).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...

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...