Ideas sobre análisis, dibujo y arquitectura

The phenomenological and social analysis of architecture and planning are not a new subject matter. However a set of new conditions made them interesting again. First the impact of Mikhail Bakhtin’s dialogical philosophy. We reproduce here the incredible text of the lecture in Barcelona (June 2013) by Michael Holquist, biographer, translator and the best worldwide expert of Bakhtin’s ideas and works. This lecture is a basic text in order to understand not only Bakhtin but also the cultural meaning of architecture as such. Second the tandem work by Steven Holl and Juhani Pallasmaa on the...

Including a selection of scale models, sketches, computer models, photos, and prototypes of Guallart's most outstanding projects, such as the ports of Fugee and Keelung in Taiwan, the Artificial Mountain in Wroclaw, and the Sharing Tower in Sociopolis, this exhibition catalog provides a wide ranging survey of this talented architect. Betsky's essay labels Guallart's output as an emergent architecture, as he attempts to help architecture to emerge out of its surrounding conditions.

Esta serie está dedicada a estudios de caso en los que se presentan temáticas desarrolladas acudiendo a ciertos edificios, con la certidumbre de encontrar en ellos enseñanzas ejemplares. Este empeño, en el que están involucrados buena parte de los cursos del currículo de Arquitectura en la Universidad de los Andes, supone ejercitar la mirada para establecer los principios y relaciones fundamentales presentes. La tarea eterna en su alcance, se corresponde con uno de los preceptos establecidos por la reforma curricular vigente, y desde 1997 en la que se asume que el aprendizaje de la...

With numerous maps, photographs and illustrations, this volume presents a detailed and intelligent analysis of the city.