Arquitectura y percepción

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...

Este nuevo estudio de la arquitectura moderna internacional analiza las complejas motivaciones que impulsaron este movimiento revolucionario y valora sus triunfos y sus fracasos. Se reexamina asimismo la obra de los principales arquitectos del período, como Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier y Mies van der Rohe, a la vez que se arroja nueva luz sobre su papel como maestros reconocidos. Alan Colquhoun analiza la evolución de este movimiento desde el art noveau en la década de 1890 hasta las megaestructuras de la de 1960, poniendo así de manifiesto las exigencias, a menudo...

CONTENIDO: Centro y fragmento del complejo territorial - Complejo territorial Norte Antioqueño y San Juan de Urabá - Complejo territorial Eje Bananero - Complejo territorial Urabá Chocoano.

This volume features 25 architectural works constructed in Chile by architect Valdés between 1963 and 2007. It also comprises a series of texts that the author gathered after several conversations with the architect from 2001 to 2006, in a first-hand account of the creative process established by the architect about design, material, construction and space.