Lugares urbanos y estrategias

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...

La historia de la humanidad está repleta de relatos fantásticos y extraños sobre ciudades legendarias que fueron las más avanzadas de su época, pero que de la noche a la mañana desaparecieron. Andoni Garrido, autor del famoso canal de YouTube «Pero eso es otra Historia», recoge casi cuarenta de estas leyendas de ciudades perdidas en la historia y en el tiempo, desde La Atlántida a El Dorado pasando por Lemuria, Hiperbórea, Shambhala, Yamatai, Cíbola o Aztlán entre otras, para tratar de dilucidar qué hay de verdad o de mentira en ellas, y tratar de buscar un posible origen para...

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.

Brief study of the rich architectonic and topographic expressions of the one-family houses and the collective dwelling constructed during the 20th century in México. During this post-Revolution period the mass options became models of good taste, functionality and technological possibilities for the growing urban spaces.