Australia architecture & design

Text (in Spanish) and images complement each other to create a narrative thread that offers informative insights into the architect's intellectual and visual imagination and expands our understanding of Olgiati's oeuvre.

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...

One of two most anticipated rooms of a house (the other is the master bathroom) is the kitchen. It's the interior space where most value can be added during a sale and the space that most homeowners wish to make the heart of the home. This book features over 100 contemporary kitchen designs to suit all sizes, shapes, and ages of house.

La posibilidad de una arquitectura estrictamente funcional, aceptada en las primeras décadas del siglo XX, procede del siguiente argumento: en arquitectura, como en la naturaleza, la forma sigue (o debe seguir) a la función. El soporte material de dicho argumento fue la casa inglesa, supuestamente generada desde adentro hacia afuera, atendiendo exclusivamente a los usos. El lema inglés "cada cosa en su sitio y un sitio para cada cosa" fue utilizado para explicar la asociación entre utilidad e irregularidad. Pero la irregularidad de las casas inglesas no dependía tanto de los...