Arquitectonics

El presente libro establece los fundamentos de un saber hacer arquitectura que no se identifique unicamente con el espacio de la construccion, en concordancia con las posturas humanistas de Occidente. Se estructura en tres partes complementarias, dedicadas a las tres dimensiones basicas de la arquitectura: la estetica, la etica-politica y la cientifica, unidas a traves de un nucleo dialogico-social del hecho arquitectonico que da solidez, simultaneamente, tanto al diseno arquitectonico como a su construccion y a su uso. El libro se complementa con un amplio anexo que contiene la version...

This the third book of the series prepared to spread and promote Mexican residential architecture, a style that is more and more pure and bright. Mexican residential architecture has succeeded in integrating proportion, functionality, context and materials for the pleasure of the persons who create or live in these homes.

Wladimiro Acosta es una personalidad aparentemente sencilla, pero de una apasionante complejidad que se disfruta al profundizar el conocimiento de sus textos y obras. Artista rebelde, sus impulsos creativos estuvieron siempre sometidos a los límites del respeto a sus semejantes, porque entendió, ejerció y se enamoró de la arquitectura por su destino de alojamiento de la vida del hombre. Esta publicación recoge escritos que relatan, con variable aproximación, una crónica de su vida, destacando el de la doctora Telma Reca, su esposa, por los datos que aporta una convivencia vital. Los...

"Taking over the baton from their mentor and friend Eduardo Chillida, the architects Juan Carlos Sancho (San Sebastián, 1957) and Sol Madridejos (Madrid, 1958) have pursued a sensitive dialectic between matter and void that lies at the foundations of a fertile formal laboratory, one where the fold is an instrument with great potential in the attainment of structural, spatial, and material coherence. In these pages Arquitectura Viva presents a selection of four Spanish works – ranging from a small chapel to a large educational complex – in which the duo composes variations on the same...

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...