Aridscapes : designing in harsh and fragile lands

Text (in Spanish) and images complement each other to create a narrative thread that offers informative insights into the architect's intellectual and visual imagination and expands our understanding of Olgiati's oeuvre.

This catalogue offers a chronological survey of the work constructed between 1984 and 1994 by the architect Jo Coenen (Heerlen, 1949), with offices in Eindhoven and Maastricht.

A Compilation of 30 Innovative Architectonic Inventions in Catalonia. The architecture produced in Catalonia has often been in the vanguard of Europe, especially since Barcelona hosted the 1992 Olympics. This book is an exciting overview of innovative spaces and techniques made in Catalonia, presenting a cross section of 'products' as well as the buildings and environments for which they were conceived. The products solve specific program requirements, new social demands, environmental needs, budget limitations and design aspirations to improve on the status quo. They are proving grounds of...

"Este libro es el resultado de un trabajo de investigación llevado a cabo desde la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Manizales, orientado a identificar las características formales y constructivas de las estructuras laminares [membranas y plegaduras] diseñadas y edificadas en Colombia durante un período de veinticinco años contados a partir de 1945, por profesionales nacionales que conocían bien lo que por entonces ocurría en el contexto de la arquitectura internacional y de manera particular en el campo de los sistemas estructurales destinados a cubrir grandes superficies con...