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"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...

The expert contributors to this lavishly illustrated volume, devoted entirely to Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion of 1929, address here for the first time the forgotten contexts of the Pavilion's genesis. Habitually thought of as an abstract, unpolluted, and splendidly isolated building--a precursor of Mies's American period--the Pavilion is revealed here as a thoroughly European work, perhaps less pristine but more authentic. Mies and Lilly Reich were commissioned to design not only the Pavilion but also more than one hundred thousand square feet of German stands spread throughout the...

Partiendo de las ciudades de Viena y Berlín, se analiza la metrópolis como lugar de interacción, confusión, conflictos y dispersión: un territorio conceptual que se despliega como red ilimitada en la que emergen múltiples nodos. Se interpreta lo urbano de forma interdisciplinar, dado el ineludible recurso a cuanto la literatura, las artes visuales, la estética y el cine pueden introducir como claves decisivas de lectura de las transformaciones arquitectónicas y urbanísticas.

A compilation of essays that have been written by academics and professionals; from various points of view, perspectives and theories into post-modern architecture.