Arquitectos mexicanos III

This book has become a classic. With photographs of extraordinary quality, is a copilation of architectural art works performed over the last decade. This book presents a visual history to analyze and evaluate the work of twenty different styles to create spaces and propose solutions where daily life takes place, between tradition and modernism.

A study of Bogota viewed as a museum (outside of the traditional museum). This work offers a critical look at modern city through a series of tours through downtown Bogotá, specifically on Seventh Avenue between Calles 11 and 16 that was transformed from Bogotazo through an urban renewal project. It turned the area into a paradigm of what should be a modern Bogotá. The book discusses the aesthetic character of its architecture, the connections between traditional museums, and reaffirmed the principles of order and functionality of the modern movement and led to rules that have sought...

Visiting an exhibition by Leonardo Nierman is penetrating a space that invites us to dream in infinities, to discover exteriors and interiors of cosmic worlds. The exhibition Genesis de un Sueno (Genesis of a Dream) mounted at the Contemporary University Museum of Art in Mexico City conveyed such sensations to visitors. Running from May through August of 1996, it featured three hundred of Nierman's works spanning forty years and was reinstalled by popular demand through January 1997. Its beauty and mystery are now captured in this elegant volume. Nierman: Genesis de un Sueno is a celebration...

El objeto de este trabajo es contribuir a una teoría del proyecto arquitectónico en la que la idea de tipo no se conciba como un mecanismo reproductor sino como una estructura de la forma capaz de múltiples desarrollos.

En 2002 Claudio Destéfano cumplía 40 y quiso hacerse un regalo especial: correr el Marathon des Sables en el desierto del Sahara, famoso en el mundo por los desafíos constantes que impone a quienes participan en él. Nunca antes había hecho algo parecido. Esa experiencia lo marcó hondamente y le mostró otro camino posible, el del encuentro con uno mismo en situaciones extremas, en el silencio, en la soledad. Hoy, a 18 años de ese hito en su vida, con más camino recorrido –y corrido también-, el autor recrea, en su tercer libro, ese maratón y lo aprendido entonces y para siempre....