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Los arquitectos le piden al arte sensaciones imprevistas y fuertes, nuevos efectos de fisonomía y de ambiente, acentos que logren a cualquier precio conmover o inquietar; incluso, se piden préstamos formales unos a otros para luego arruinarse con tantos préstamos. De ahí la crisis actual entre función y forma en arquitectura. Ante tal problemática, el autor propone revalorar el lenguaje arquitectónico por ser un instrumento generador de formas con sentido.

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style and accomplishments written by a leading architecture critic. Then, approximately twenty noteworthy works and projects are discussed by the architect and presented in detail with site plans, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.

A selection of the most prominent works of architecture selected by El Croquis with an introduction by Juan Antonio Cortés and an essay by William Curtis. Among the works are the Sendai Mediatheque by Toyo Ito, the Yokohama International Port Terminal by Foreign Office Architects, the Netherlands Embassy in Berlin by OMA-Rem Koolhaas, the Braga Municipal Stadium by Eduardo Souto de Moura, the Prada Aoyama Epicenter by Herzog & De Meuron, the Scottish Parliament building by EMBT, the Monastery of Our Lady of Novy Dvur by John Pawson, the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art expansion by Steven Holl,...

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.