Heikkinen & Komonen

Known until recently for such public facilities as the Zamora Municipal Museum, the Castellón Fine Arts Museum and the León Auditorium, over the last few years Mansilla + Tuñón have developed a number of projects in which urban scale and the problems of inhabiting in the contemporary city assume more and more importance. In this issue of 2G we present the (almost) complete works of these Madrid architects, works grouped around the basic ideas which define their projects, namely memory and the city, system and restrictions, sameness and difference, and lastly trace and landscape. These...

Las transformaciones son inevitables. Se posan, intervienen, actualizan, adaptan, extienden, amplían: son la relación entre partes construidas en tiempos, materialidades y por actores diferentes. Este libro documenta la experiencia de estudiantes y docentes, que en dos ocasiones se aventuraron a Alemania para investigar las transformaciones edilicias a partir de sus estrategias y proyectos

Esta recopilación de obras se origina en el deseo de aprovechar los medios digitales para registrarlas en un archivo sintético, se la ha separado en dos sectores. Uno, dedicado a viviendas individuales o colectivas, y otro a proyectos especiales de edificios comerciales, industriales, para educación o salud. En éste se incorporan algunos dibujos que fueron la propuesta inicial que condujo en definitiva a la obra realizada.

Life and work of polemic architect and urbanist Meyer (b. Switzerland), one of the most important functionalists of the 1920's. The former director of the Bauhaus, he worked for the Post-Revolutionary Regimes in Mexico as the director of the Instituto del Urbanismo y Planification from 1942 through 1949, while also becoming the editor of the collective graphic workshop Taller de Grafica Popular (TGP) from 1947 to 1949. Many plates of his architectural designs and the structural diagrams Meyer used for the Bauhaus and in IUP in Mexico.