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This catalogue offers a chronological survey of the work constructed between 1984 and 1994 by the architect Jo Coenen (Heerlen, 1949), with offices in Eindhoven and Maastricht.

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...

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...

Este libro ahonda en una época definitiva en la vida de Rogelio Salmona. Testimonios, documentos de archivo e imágenes complementan e ilustran los hechos más relevantes ocurridos en la etapa previa a su ejercicio profesional en Colombia y anticipan su consecuente postura y los planteamientos de su arquitectura y de su idea de ciudad. En conversación con el arquitecto, recupera experiencias tempranas en las que se ponen de relieve el papel desempeñado por Pierre Francastel y el impacto de sus cursos en la Sorbona, así como de los viajes de estudio. Estas experiencias se concretaron en la ...