Arquitecto Enrique Yáñez de la Fuente

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...

El valor significativo de la arquitectura contemporánea indica imprecisión temporal y cierta eventualidad. La veracidad de la arquitectura se ha transformado en espacio de exhibición; esta ya no se juzga por el cumplimiento real de sus promesas sino por la correspondencia entre sus fantasías y las del espectador. La paradoja visual se establece como espacio de relaciones y conflictos en donde unos y otros componen la complejidad arquitectónica de nuestra época, pues esta se ubica, estratégicamente, en el lugar de encuentro entre categorías opuestas y distintivas, un significado...

"Critical study and research of the life and architecture of Urzúa (b. Mexico) who along architects Luis Barragán and Ignacio Díaz Morales started the localartistic movement known as "regionalismo" in Guadalajara. The edition is divided in 3 sections: his life, closely related to his architecture, an illustrated catalogue of his life production and acollection of facsimile copies of documents from his personal archives"--Provided by vendor.

"No historical European city looks as modern as Berlin. Renovating and changing constantly, in the last one hundred years a notion of modernity in architecture peculiar to Berlin has developed in the German capital. In light of the multitude of meanings this term can have the present volume shows a broad spectrum of Modernism with its technical and constructive as well as formal and aesthetic innovations in the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century, marked by the great names of architecture, from Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe to Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid. Berlin...