Umbral

Este libro presenta una serie de escuelas, diseñadas para alentar, estimular y orientar la mente a sus usuarios. Las fotografías a color de los proyectos, junto con planos y explicaciones de los propios arquitectos, son una práctica guía para los lectores de esta fuente invaluable. Estos elementos proporcionarán inspiración para arquitectos, estudiantes de arquitectura y otros profesionales involucrados en sector de la educación.

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. ...

Invita a reflexionar sobre el paisaje como expresión social de cierto orden territorial y de las relaciones intrínsecas que lo sustentan. En esa dinámica, emerge un nuevo estatus de lugar mediante marcas simbólicas que remiten a percepciones sensoriales, a representaciones colectivas, a construcciones subjetivas. Este tipo de intervenciones, realizadas como caracterizaciones, delimitaciones y diferenciaciones de lugares y de actores, permite reconocer discursos de segregación, de pugnas, de desigualdades. Para ahondar sobre estas cuestiones, toma como caso de estudio el área de borde...

In the nineties, the modern orthodoxy has stopped imposing its criteria. At a time when there are as many architectural philosophies as architects, this volume offers us some answers to the common question of where present-day architecture is going. This view of the current world of architecture is presented through analysis of the projects of the most recognized and respected architects, but also the most innovative ones and those of the new generations.