La historia secreta de Madrid y sus edificios

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style and accomplishments written by a leading architecture critic. Then, approximately twenty noteworthy works and projects are discussed by the architect and presented in detail with site plans, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.

Located in Mexico City, Tatiana Bilbao Estudio is well known internationally for its use of traditional Mexican construction techniques, the highly sculptural effects of its buildings and its unusually collaborative approach toward each client. Founded by Tatiana Bilbao (born 1972) in 2004, its completed buildings include the Gratitude Open Chapel in La Ruta del Peregrino, Gabriel Orozco's house in Roca Blanca and the botanical garden in Culiacan. The enormous production of ideas and designs that takes place there is directed to different spaces, in which the architecture is deeply humanized. ...

Una definición básica del teatro como espacio arquitectónico es aquella que lo considera como el lugar que se proyecta y se construye para que ocurran eventos dignos de atención, lo que incluye la aparición en el tiempo de diversos formatos de distracción y de arte que han llevado a las distintas sociedades a generar espacios para presenciar de la mejor manera determinado espectáculo. Esta definición de espacio teatral es de carácter general y se articula con el acontecer histórico y cultural de cada contexto.

Essays, articles and interviews by Alberto Ruy Sanchez Lacy, Luis Barragán, Octavio Paz, Juan Palomar, Alfonso Alfaro, Álvaro Mutis, Vicente Quirarte, Jorge Esquinca, Mario Schjetnan Garduño, Felipe Leal.