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The shopping mall is one of the typologies most succesfully developed in the twentieth century. The work of the Mexican architural firm Grupo Arquitech has ventured into this fertile territory. Directed by Juan José Sánchez since 1987. In the space of a few years, Arquitech has designed the main malls in Mexico, perfecting a model that accurately define the limit. This is the first major documentation of their work.

Los detalles de Carlo Scarpa representan la búsqueda de la esencia creativa. La tendencia hacia la abstracción, en la arquitectura de la primera mitad del siglo XX, parecía haber condenado el concepto de ornamento. Sin embargo, Scarpa requiere su presencia ante la necesidad de llenar el vacío sensorial de la ortodoxia moderna. Una elegante sencillez se manifiesta a través del detalle sofisticado, contribuyendo a la estimulación de los sentidos. El resultado es una arquitectura emotiva y sensorial. Una composición equilibrada de relaciones entre los elementos que configuran el espacio....

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...