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A man (evidently the architect Mies van der Rohe), stands in a room in a glass-and-steel building. This is the scene that author Ricardo Daza uses for his investigation into the man, the room, the building, and what the architect is looking at. Looking for Mies unfolds like a detective novel, complete with deductions, revelations, and conclusions about the architect's work. This fascinating study of van der Rohe is illustrated with 160 duotones.

With numerous maps, photographs and illustrations, this volume presents a detailed and intelligent analysis of the city.

This book revolves around the drawings and scale models especially selected by architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha, who was conferred the degree of Doctorate Honoris Causa by the Universidad Nacional del Litoral in 2009. The personal selection done by PMdR resulted in a publishing project that included the participation of a group of academics from Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina convened so that, by means of short texts, freely elaborated their perspective on those drawings. The book is, therefore, the result of a collective work whose purpose is to think the architecture from its most common...

Centrado en la génesis, el diseño, la construcción y el presente de la arquitectura que acoge el Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, el libro recorre setenta años de la historia Vitoria, desde los primeros impulsos de la estación de autobuses a principios de los años 30 del siglo pasado hasta la intensa actividad del centro-museo actual.