Bresciani Valdés Castillo Huidobro

A compilation of texts by Professor Julio Arroyo previously presented in different academic meetings make up the present edition centered in public spaces in contemporary cities and the architecture that is concomitant, taking as a study reference the city of Santa Fe. Public spaces are a crucial category of urban life. However, in contemporary cities inconsistencies and contradictions prevail against the ethical postulates that define them -social cohesion, democratic inclusion, free expression, symbolic representation of citizen values- and the phenomena of what is public, dissociated in...

This series was the winner of the American Institute of Architects' prestigious "Award for Excellence in International Book Publishing". Each volume in this series is introduced with an essay on the architect, and a chronological or stylistic presentation of their most outstanding buildings and projects. No other series provides such a complete and concise summary of the world's leading architects' works. The volumes are fully illustrated in black-and-white with photos and project renderings.

This series was the winner of the American Institute of Architects' prestigious "Award for Excellence in International Book Publishing". Each volume in this series is introduced with an essay on the architect, and a chronological or stylistic presentation of their most outstanding buildings and projects. No other series provides such a complete and concise summary of the world's leading architects' works. The volumes are fully illustrated in black-and-white with photos and project renderings.

El estudio de la arquitectura, con todas las disciplinas que conlleva, es hermoso ¿cuántas veces nos lo dijeron...? Que la profesión de arquitecto es "cautivadora, creativa y fantástica" pero que el ejercicio de la profesión es un "vía crucis" por no decir una porquería... No creo que el ejercicio sea eso, no lo es en ninguna profesión, sólo que trataremos a través de estas páginas de simplemente "manejar" aquellas situaciones que nos complicaron y que pudieron haberse evitado. Se trata, de revertir aquello de "que la experiencia ajena no nos sirve" y que la nuestra "llega cuando...