Ideas sobre análisis, dibujo y arquitectura

City and Architecture, Six generations who built up the modern Latin America comes from the architecture and urban planning history developed in the Latin-American area between 1885 and 1975. This is an organized work from a method called by the author generational, which covers 90 years (six generations). The names of those generations, that each one of them covers a period of 15 years, are gathered together in the chapters names of the book. The exposition of the context of each historic period is connected with the analysis of the architecture work, which offers a wide outlook of the...

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.

A compilation of essays that have been written by academics and professionals; from various points of view, perspectives and theories into post-modern architecture.

«... El material, detalle y estructura de un edificio forman en conjunto una condición absoluta. El potencial de la arquitectua reside en conferir significados auténticos a lo que vemos, olemos y tocamos. la tectónica es fundamental para nuestro sentidos. El nuevo libro de Kenneth Frampton es fundamental para arquitectos, estudiantes y cualquier interesado en los secretos de la arquitectura...» Rafael moneo, catedrático de Arquitectura, Universidad de Harvard, Graduate School of Design.