Santander, mirar y ver...

He estado pensando en escribir este libro hace tiempo... He estado pensando en ser Arquitecta hace más tiempo aún. Más precisamente, hace 40 años... Animo!! Que si Dios y la Patria me lo permiten... Que si Bush, Carter o Nixon, que si Menen, Alfonsín, el Papa o Pluto, que si el dólar, el euro, el patacón, los australes, las fichas del subte, los tickets restaurant, o los vales de caja... Que si Saturno y Mercurio en conjunción con Marte en la casa 4 (¿?). Que después de las elecciones, que antes del corralito, que con los importados, que con la revolución industrial, que con la...

This well-illustrated Spanish-language book retraces the development and magnificent flowering of Mayan architecture in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize over the period 300 B.C.-A.D. 1500, showing the extraordinary synchronicity of this architecture with that of other Old World societies. Featured cities include Tikal, the earliest Mayan religious center; Palenque, famous for its ceremonial center; and Copan, with its hieroglyphic staircase featuring 2,500 glyphs.

"Architecture & Design Australia" is a new survey of Australian Architecture that takes an expansive look at over 50 builings, from private dwellings to public monuments, and includes many award-winning projects that have helped shape the energetic state of Australian design today. It is fair to say that the diversity of the Australian continent shapes the complexity of its architecture, and it is these ingredients that continue to set the scene for the country's exciting architectural language. An index with contact information of the featured architects and designers is enclosed.

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 The book includes unpublished texts by Andreas Ruby (a didactic essay) and Hans Ulrich Ibrist (an exclusive interview).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