Casas de la vieja Cuba

Una Cátedra de Proyectos puede organizarse de múltiples maneras. Es conocida la condición impuesta por Rem Koolhaas para impartir un taller en Harvard: no tener ninguna relación con el proyecto. Interesado solamente en la investigación, era lo único que quería compartir con los alumnos. El experimento se reveló controvertido y finalmente desapareció. No es así como hemos planteado nuestra docencia. Por resumir, respetamos el viejo dictum, fundado en una sabia experiencia, de que a proyectar se aprende proyectando y reflexionando al tiempo sobre el proyecto. En nuestra Unidad Docente ...

Architectural guide to the city of Guadalajara, with a selection of close to 300 buildings representative of all time periods. The guide is divided in 3 sections: the first, the largest and medullar part of the book is the presentation of the buildings; a second section is an inventory of buildings important in the history of the city but now disappeared, and a third section includes location maps with recommended itineraries and routes. Each entry includes the name, date and brief history of the building and the name of the architect.

A major critical study by noted architect and researcher Ramón Gutiérrez on the different phases of the history and evolution of the architectural patrimony of Paraguay spanning from primitive and colonial times to present days. The book includes a large collection of period photographs and color reproductions of the watercolors of the city of Asuncion done between 1855 and 1856 by French traveler Francisco Vincent of colonial and old Asuncion that graphically document how the original urban profile of Asunción has paid the tribute of the urban development and progress sacrificing its most ...

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.