Luis Barragán

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style and accomplishments written by a leading architecture critic. Then, approximately twenty noteworthy works and projects are discussed by the architect and presented in detail with site plans, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.

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...

El catálogo de la VIII Bienal de Arquitectura Española reproduce en su estructura el modus operandi de la Bienal: los criterios de selección, las sesiones del comité de selección, los distintos premios, los finalistas, etc. Por ello esta edición puede considerarse una fuente fiable de la valoración de los arquitectos españoles que han presentado sus proyectos. También constituye una fuente de información muy valiosa para conocer en qué situación se encuentra actualmente la arquitectura española sobre aspectos, por ejemplo, como el tipo de proyectos realizados o a la situación...

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style and accomplishments written by a leading architecture critic. Then, approximately twenty noteworthy works and projects are discussed by the architect and presented in detail with site plans, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.