Bravo por tu casa

"Barcelona" presents a study-in text and photographic image-of one of the most architecturally fascinating and impressive cities in the world. From the Gaudí cathedral to Albert Viaplana and Helio Piñón's recent Centre de Cultura Contemporània, from the Palau de la Musica to the Dali Museum, what we find is a city whose magnificent strength lies in the coexistence of its amazingly diverse and historically disparate variety of structures. The city of Barcelona absorbs new influences and maintains traditions organically, avoiding a sense of fragmentation for a sense of exuberance and...

La obra de Rafael Iglesia (1952-2015) ha sido extensamente difundida. No obstante, de la copiosa labor crítica dedicada a su producción se recorta un campo escasamente explorado: su programa creativo. Para abordarlo, Claudio Solari hace uso de la definición que Paul Valéry hiciera de poética como acción que hace y que atiende a los dos movimientos que concurren en igual medida en los trabajos de Iglesia: el de la contradicción y el error, y el del orden y la concentración. El trabajo devela una construcción poética en Iglesia que, según la hipótesis del autor, se funda en...

This book revolves around the drawings and scale models especially selected by architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha, who was conferred the degree of Doctorate Honoris Causa by the Universidad Nacional del Litoral in 2009. The personal selection done by PMdR resulted in a publishing project that included the participation of a group of academics from Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina convened so that, by means of short texts, freely elaborated their perspective on those drawings. The book is, therefore, the result of a collective work whose purpose is to think the architecture from its most common...

This the third book of the series prepared to spread and promote Mexican residential architecture, a style that is more and more pure and bright. Mexican residential architecture has succeeded in integrating proportion, functionality, context and materials for the pleasure of the persons who create or live in these homes.