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El interés de Le Corbusier por la arquitectura del pasado aparece compartido por una generación de arquitectos italianos formados en la década de 1920, en los mismos años en los que se escribe y publica su Hacia una arquitectura. Este trabajo de investigación comienza siguiendo esta línea compartida de intereses y se estructura en torno a tres arquitectos italianos pertenecientes a la generación citada: Adalberto Libera (1903-1963), Mario Ridolfi (1904-1984) y Giueseppe Terragni (1904-1943) y, de manera más precisa, sobre el análisis de sus obras y proyectos realizados desde sus...

This is not another book on estates and confiscations. The author offers us a precise radiography of the state of the Carthusian Monastery in its magnificent final decades, of the ravages it suffered from 1808 onwards and its subsequent nationalisation, auction and sale process. A work mostly based on unpublished sources.

The book is devoted to young architect Christian Wiese's architecture firm, presenting a selection of buildings that reflect international tendencies harmoniously combined with Ecuador's heritage and values. His already prolific and international well recognized practice includes technologically advanced buildings, characteristic for their clarity and transparency and unique for his masterly manipulation of interior and exterior space light interaction.

The book examines the long, productive and stormy relationship architect Le Corbusier had with Argentina and the series of events in consequence. His Argentinean disciples Jorge Ferrari Hardoy, Juan Kurchan and Antonio Bonet, although influenced by the master architect had their own architectonic and urban ideas. The book examines the "Austral Net" created towards the productive, plural and complex relationship of these 4 personages where the central figure is the famed Swiss architect. The book is chronologically organized and includes a selection of the most important architecture...