La arquitectura de las diversidades territoriales de Urabá

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...

Caruso St John están convencidos de que los arquitectos modernos deberían poder elegir entre un interminable abanico de posibilidades culturales. Éste es también el planteamiento del libro. Su objetivo no es únicamente documentar los edificios y proyectos que ha realizado el estudio Caruso St John en Gran Bretaña y el continente europeo desde principios de los años noventa, sino que examina sobre todo la diversidad de sus fuentes en arquitectura, arte, diseño, literatura y filosofía. Caruso St John ven con escepticismo que la abstracción y la simplificación basten para crear...

Features a selection examining houses that have broken away from the past and that define today's innovation and tomorrow's classicism. The book does not aim to convert these houses into prototypes to follow; they are included because they reflect the peculiarities of their era, sites and owners.

A study of each phase of the prolific trajectory of architect Pani (b. Mexico). A strong follower of Le Corbusier principles and whose modernist and grand scale urban and construction designs allowed him to construct in Mexico the first international hotel, the first multi family housing complex, the first condominium and the first satellite city. His architectural legacy includes more than 130 projects covering all types of buildings: housing, schools, hospitals, airports, commercial, office and urban, designs. All photographs (black and white 8x10 plaques ) in this catalogue were shot by...