Cúpulas: Manual de Patología Preventiva

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...

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...

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.

In this work, which is based on heritage architecture and cultural studies, the relationship between communities and habitat is studied to understand their way of conceiving and inhabiting the urban territory. The author participation in the Plan Especial de Manejo y Protección (PEMP) of the set of architectural assets of Republican architecture of Quibdó led her to question the handling of historical centers containing declared architectural assets in the country. The stories made invisible or denied by hegemonic heritage perspectives "were the route charted within the framework of the PhD ...