Hormigón

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 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.

Esta obra procura proporcionar una ayuda sistemática basada en la relación entre los materiales para la construcción como un todo y los factores contra los cuales deben resistir. En consecuencia, cada uno de los factores se explica por separado en función de su naturaleza y propiedades y luego se relaciona a una categoría específica. También se incluyen las propiedades de todos los materiales relativos a cada factor.

"Critical study and research of the life and architecture of Urzúa (b. Mexico) who along architects Luis Barragán and Ignacio Díaz Morales started the localartistic movement known as "regionalismo" in Guadalajara. The edition is divided in 3 sections: his life, closely related to his architecture, an illustrated catalogue of his life production and acollection of facsimile copies of documents from his personal archives"--Provided by vendor.