Identidad institucional. Crecer, crear, hacer diseño

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...

Examen de cuatro arquitectos en cuya obra el componente táctil de la artesanía y la luminosidad de su sencilla exposición se combinan refinándose hasta un grado sin precedentes. Aunque los arquitectos -David Chipperfield (Londres), Waro Kishi (Kyoto), Eduardo Souto de Moura (Lisboa) y Tod Williams y Billie Tsien (Nueva York)- proceden de culturas muy diferentes, su arquitectura manifiesta una extraña visión de pureza y serenidad independientes del tiempo y el espacio. Desde las delicadas reinterpretaciones que hace Chipperfield de las formas históricas hasta la exquisita contención...

A comprehensive study on the evolution of 17th century architecture and architectonical elements in churches, civil buildings and houses in viceregal Lima, including the wooden structures using mudejar techniques. This architectural style resulted from the synergy process between indigenous and foreign construction techniques that merge to create a unique and local architecture. This is the third of a 4 volume series.

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...