Ciudad y arquitectura

History of the construction of Caracas between 1937 and 1957. Based on interviews with local architects, engineers, urban planners, entrepreneurs and government officials.

En este volumen prologado por Roberto Segre, el autor nos entrega una seleccion de cronicas y ensayos publicados en muy diversos medios a lo largo de una decada, producto de un intenso ejercicio de periodismo cultural de quien ha sabido armonizar su actividad profesional de arquitecto con la investigacion transdisciplina y el oficio literario. Dos son los ejes que articulan el libro : el tema de la identidad y la revalorizacion de la utopia, entendida esta no tanto como el "no hay tal lugar", sino como aquello que el ser humano debe perseguir para darle un sentido positivo y pleno a su...

The book examines the long, productive and stormy relationship architect Le Corbusier had with Argentina and the series of events in consequence. His Argentinean disciples Jorge Ferrari Hardoy, Juan Kurchan and Antonio Bonet, although influenced by the master architect had their own architectonic and urban ideas. The book examines the "Austral Net" created towards the productive, plural and complex relationship of these 4 personages where the central figure is the famed Swiss architect. The book is chronologically organized and includes a selection of the most important architecture...

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 ...