Fernando González Gortázar

A Compilation of 30 Innovative Architectonic Inventions in Catalonia. The architecture produced in Catalonia has often been in the vanguard of Europe, especially since Barcelona hosted the 1992 Olympics. This book is an exciting overview of innovative spaces and techniques made in Catalonia, presenting a cross section of 'products' as well as the buildings and environments for which they were conceived. The products solve specific program requirements, new social demands, environmental needs, budget limitations and design aspirations to improve on the status quo. They are proving grounds of...

De pronto, la ciudad por antonomasia del desierto, Las Vegas, cumple cien años. Una existencia longeva, sin duda, para un non-place que brotó casi accidentalmente en unos parajes tan inhóspitos y vacíos como eran los altiplanos de Nevada. Tras una gestación no muy distinta en avatares a la de cualquier otra town del lejano y salvaje Oeste, experimentó una agitada y prolongada adolescencia, hasta que durante los años sesenta del siglo pasado alcanzó una mayoría de edad urdida en las trastiendas de los centros más acendrados del Mob, ambientada en los ruidos cansinos de las ruletas y...

Winner of the 2020 SAMLA Studies Book Award — Edited Collection Cities both near and far communicate in a variety of ways. Travel between, through, and among urban centers initiates contact, and cities themselves are sites of ever-changing cultural and historical encounters. Predictable and surprising challenges and opportunities arise when city borders are crossed, voices meet, and artistic traditions find their counterparts. Using the Latin word for “translation,” translatio, or “to carry across,” as a point of departure, Avenues of Translation explores how translation...

Cecilia Puga belongs, along with Smiljan Radic, Alejandro Aravena and Pezo von Ellrichshausen, to a new generation of Chilean architects who from their peripheral situation address concerns that are very much in keeping with certain avenues explored by European architecture. This issue of 2G brings together seventeen buildings and projects by the Chilean architect, including the exemplary House in Bah’a Azul, in which the classic icon of the section of a house - the outline any child might draw - is manipulated, pivoted and transformed to produce a sense of strangeness in relation to its...