Reciclaje de la arquitectura en centros de ciudad

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...

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 A work mostly based on unpublished sources.

An in-depth study of Colombian architect Luis Restrepo, this collection brings together a selection of his constructions developed by between 1989 and 2007. In this innovative presentation of architectural work, each construction is thoroughly illustrated with both color photographs and reproductions of the blueprints, yielding a true glimpse of Restrepo's genius. Escaping from any classification, his works restore the essentials of architecture—space, materials, and light—and this compilation is sure to appeal to enthusiasts of both architecture and design. Exentas de artificios y...

El segundo volumen de Cristianismo, Historia y textualidad, la obra cumbre de Luis Vergara Anderson, explora la posibilidad de conciliar la tradición cristiana con la hindú del Vedanta-advaita, siguiendo las intuiciones de un par de monjes que vivieron para lograr este objetivo. Si cabe afirmar la Encarnación universal desde el cristianismo, podríamos encontrar una identidad insospechada entre ambas tradiciones religiosas. A la luz de un magnífico estudio técnico sobre la predicación de Jesús sobre el Reino de Dios, que recrea el estado del arte de la cuestión del Jesús histórico,...