Luis Restrepo

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 The book includes unpublished texts by Andreas Ruby (a didactic essay) and Hans Ulrich Ibrist (an exclusive interview).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

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Este libro reivindica las figuras de Le Corbusier, Josep Lluís Sert y Paul Lester Wiener en los planes de construcción de la ciudad de Bogotá. El impacto que tuvieron estos arquitectos en el desarrollo y en la implantación de paradigmas sociales y urbanísticos de la ciudad no es menor, a pesar de lo que se ha creído en la academia del país. Acompañado de un rico material gráfico, este libro plantea un detallado análisis del panorama histórico de dos episodios especialmente significativos en la construcción de ciudad y en las ideas de desarrollo derivadas de esta: los planes Piloto ...

Inventory of architectural patrimony and popular culture in the state of Veracruz, Mexico. The first part is devoted to architecture and monuments from Pre-Columbian , colonial, 19th and 20th century, with emphasis on Pre-Columbian cultures. Includes mural art and some information on archival holdings. The second half is devoted to folkart, crafts, local culinary history, folklore, fiestas at the village, town, city and state levels.