Arquitectura y ciudad: imaginarios fronterizos

un libro editado por Diseño Editorial y dirigido por Mario Sabugo con textos de Raúl Horacio Campodónico, Horacio Caride Bartrons, Beatriz García Moreno, Rodolfo Giunta, Mario Sabugo, Maximiliano Salomón, Gabriela Sorda, Ileana Versace y Johanna Zimmerman. Se trata de nuevas contribuciones a una teoría de los imaginarios del habitar, sus aplicaciones y las diferentes contraposiciones de las significaciones instituidas y las significaciones alternativas en lo referente a la ciudad, la arquitectura y los diversos sistemas de acciones, ambientes y objetos del habitar.

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...

Whether we live in a house in the country or in a city home, a terrace is an increasingly cherished luxury that opens living space out to the exterior and creates more direct contact with nature. Spectacular and of varied design, some are on the roofs, some are fitted with a solarium, while others boast a garden. Over the course of 136 pages and with more than 140 spectacular photos in colour, Terrace Design offers a complete selection of terraces set in the country, by the sea and in the city. An original compilation that will inspire a new terrace or refurbishment and that offers valuable...

La arquitectura padece hoy una crisis que ahonda sus raíces en las postrimerías del siglo XVIII, con la pérdida de autoridad de la tradición clásica, que aunaba de manera natural forma, uso y construcción. Con la búsqueda de modelos alternativos, se desencadenó una larga batalla de estilos que termina con el Movimiento Moderno, promotor de una auténtica ruptura radical con el pasado. Desde este momento se entroniza la función, la atención al usuario y el culto a las novedades constructivas. Estos ideales se reúnen bajo el nombre de «funcionalismo» que no tardó en ser...

Having graduated from Cornell University, Richard Meier established his own architectural firm in New York City in 1963, around a group known as the "Five Architects" of New York. This book includes 70 works and projects, chronologically ordered, from his first private houses around New York, to the most recent cultural centres, museums, corporate buildings and city planning for different cities in Europe, Asia and USA. This book, abundantly illustrated and documented, offers a chronological survey, from the first houses in the Hamptons to the most recent buildings including the Getty Center...