Construcción sostenible de espacio público

En este volumen prologado por Roberto Segre, el autor nos entrega una seleccion de cronicas y ensayos publicados en muy diversos medios a lo largo de una decada, producto de un intenso ejercicio de periodismo cultural de quien ha sabido armonizar su actividad profesional de arquitecto con la investigacion transdisciplina y el oficio literario. Dos son los ejes que articulan el libro : el tema de la identidad y la revalorizacion de la utopia, entendida esta no tanto como el "no hay tal lugar", sino como aquello que el ser humano debe perseguir para darle un sentido positivo y pleno a su...

The English edition of In Detail: Interior Spaces has sold over 5000 copies since it was released in 2002. This highly successful volume, looking at materials, lighting, colours and the technical aspects of interior design, is now also available in Romanic language editions.

"Taking over the baton from their mentor and friend Eduardo Chillida, the architects Juan Carlos Sancho (San Sebastián, 1957) and Sol Madridejos (Madrid, 1958) have pursued a sensitive dialectic between matter and void that lies at the foundations of a fertile formal laboratory, one where the fold is an instrument with great potential in the attainment of structural, spatial, and material coherence. In these pages Arquitectura Viva presents a selection of four Spanish works – ranging from a small chapel to a large educational complex – in which the duo composes variations on the same...

Visiting an exhibition by Leonardo Nierman is penetrating a space that invites us to dream in infinities, to discover exteriors and interiors of cosmic worlds. The exhibition Genesis de un Sueno (Genesis of a Dream) mounted at the Contemporary University Museum of Art in Mexico City conveyed such sensations to visitors. Running from May through August of 1996, it featured three hundred of Nierman's works spanning forty years and was reinstalled by popular demand through January 1997. Its beauty and mystery are now captured in this elegant volume. Nierman: Genesis de un Sueno is a celebration...