Casas unifamiliares

La antigua central de energía eléctrica se convierte en museo de arte, el viejo granero en vivienda. A cada paso nos encontramos edificios que han dejado de ser utilizados en su estado original, edificios que ofrecen espacio para nuevos usos. Ideas creativas y conceptos originales son tan importantes como el trato adecuado de la construcción existente. Tan distintas como las propias construcciones son las posibilidades formales, así como las exigencias constructivas y técnicas a las que ha de hacer frente el arquitecto. Ya se trate de la restauración de un monumento histórico, la...

En este volumen de la Coleccion Arquitectura y Humanidades, los autores nos acercan a reflexionar no solo en la genesis y cualidades de la casa, sino tambien nos hablan de las numerosas atrocidades que cometen los propios espacios domesticos contemporaneos a sus ocupantes porque no se miro por el ser humano en su esencia, en su necesidad de cobijo, de resguardo, de intimidad, de privacia, sino que, en nuestra creciente e imparable cultura urbana, el principal interes es el economico."

Text (in Spanish) and images complement each other to create a narrative thread that offers informative insights into the architect's intellectual and visual imagination and expands our understanding of Olgiati's oeuvre.

In her most recent book Jeannette Plaut, architect of the University of Chile, presents a critic essay and an inventory of what she considers the most representative examples of contemporary architecture constructed in the last decade (2000 - 2008) in Chile. The book includes a commentary by architect Henry Smith-Miller, a photographic essay by Greek photographer Erieta Attali and a critical vision by British architect, critic, historian and academic Kenneth Frampton who comments in the book "about 7 works that, in different degrees, transit from audacious features of topographic inflexion...

Colombian architect Rogelio Salmona has translated pragmatic and poetic concepts and intentions into physical form. These result from the architect's deep communion with and understanding of the materials and processes, as well as of the historic-cultural context in which his architectural intervention takes place. Salmona's oeuvre, including such notable examples as the Torres del Parque (1967) in Bogota, the Presidential House for Illustrious Guests (1981) in Cartagena, the Quimbaya Museum (1983) in Armenia and the National Archive of the Nation (1992) in Bogota, is without doubt one of the ...