Bogotá León de oro (1990-2006)

Este libro reúne una serie de textos en los que abordan dos nociones; el paisaje y lo intersticial. El abordaje que se procura parte de una búsqueda teórica alrededor de la arquitectura y el urbanismo, cuestionando los derroteros que se han trazado para darle sentido a nuestro quehacer ante los vacíos y las ruinas en la ciudad. Esta exploración intenta, en parte, desafiar algunos lindes, acercándose a otros ámbitos como las artes plásticas o el cine. Asimismo, en la aproximación teórica se intenta colocar -entre líneas- algunas inquietudes de corte epistemológico, invitando a que, ...

Mallol is an architectural design center that functions under the lead of its director and promoter, Panamanian architect Ignacio Mallol Tamayo. This edition examines 25 year of professional operations of the largest architectural firm in Central America and illustrates, with more than 270 color images, representative examples of Latin American 21st century architecture, highlighting the firm's most representative buildings: Le Cube Mallol, one of the early designs (where Mallol plays with forms, space and symetry), a clear example of the type of large constructions that would later...

Xavier Bordils (Castelló, 1939) has stood out for his contributions to promote and spread design, graphic design and packaging, as well as for his intense projectual activity. Convictions and preferences are summarised in the text that goes with his mark: ¿Xavier Bordils: anti-stylist design, graphic design, structural design, global design, utilitary design, industrial product design, sematic design, architectural design, design, blah, blah, blah.¿

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.