Casas de la vieja Cuba

A study of Bogota viewed as a museum (outside of the traditional museum). This work offers a critical look at modern city through a series of tours through downtown Bogotá, specifically on Seventh Avenue between Calles 11 and 16 that was transformed from Bogotazo through an urban renewal project. It turned the area into a paradigm of what should be a modern Bogotá. The book discusses the aesthetic character of its architecture, the connections between traditional museums, and reaffirmed the principles of order and functionality of the modern movement and led to rules that have sought...

The English edition of In Detail: Interior Spaces has sold over 5000 copies since it was released in 2002. This highly successful volume, looking at materials, lighting, colours and the technical aspects of interior design, is now also available in Romanic language editions.

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.

En este libro se abordan tres aspectos que están presentes en el proceso de formación y ejercicio profesional de los arquitectos: el aprendizaje, la composición y el emplazamiento. En el primer apartado se presentan algunas consideraciones pedagógicas y didácticas, así como también aspectos asociados al análisis y a la estrategia de aprendizaje. El segundo apartado pone en diálogo dos aproximaciones a la composición arquitectónica; la primera indaga por la analogía como estrategia de aprendizaje y la segunda por la tipología, como una sintaxis entre relaciones formales y...