Estructuras Laminares en la Arquitectura Colombiana (1945-1970)

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.

The present edition publishes part of the research papers presented during the "Seminario de Investigación Arquitectura para la Producción" organized by the university of Michoacán between 2001 and 2002 that included the participation of national and international academics. The book gathers 23 collective and individual multidisciplinary works that examine from various perspectives the history of architecture in rural areas. Works are mainly focused in the colonial territory of the ex-bishopry of Michoacán divided in 4 main topics: Space, settlements, technology and environment and...

¿Te has preguntado qué es lo que ocurre en los castillos, casas, hoteles y mansiones embrujados cuando se va el sol? ¿Te has preguntado qué es lo que ocurre en los cementerios cuando es de noche? ¿Porqué estos lugares están rodeados de temas tabú en muchas culturas? Entonces sigue leyendo.. “Se encuentra frente al gran misterio... Al que hace temblar a la humanidad desde su origen: lo desconocido.” - Gastón Leroux. Existen diversas casas, haciendas, mansiones, cementerios e incluso castillos que han sido testigos de asesinatos, violencia, injusticia, corrupción, y muchos otros...

"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...