Codigo Internacional de la Edificacion 2003

Debo justificar ante todos los posibles lectores el porqué elijo a un autor para incluirlo en la colección. Graciela Silvestri es un nombre en el campo disciplinar y sus alrededores, que la coloca como un referente obligado y nos obliga a preguntarnos: ¿qué opinará Graciela de esto? Su posición no ha sido aristocrática, habla con todos por igual. Graciela Silvestri ha hecho arquitectura a la par de todos aquellos que transformaron sus ideas en edificios. Su labor para muchos de los que acompañó en concursos construyendo relatos, ayudaron a comprender la arquitectura material que se...

London is famous for Big Ben; Paris for the Eiffel Tower; Rome for the Colosseum. Barcelona, on the other hand, is not identified by one or two famous buildings as these other European cities, but rather by an entire movement of turn-of-the-century architecture known simply as Modernisme. Familiar to Americans as art nouveau, its most famous practitioner was the artist and architect Antoni Gaudi. But the city is filled with superb examples of art nouveau in vivid color in Barcelona Art Nouveau. This book offers a tour of 46 houses, public buildings, and monuments in the art-nouveau style,...

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.

The expert contributors to this lavishly illustrated volume, devoted entirely to Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion of 1929, address here for the first time the forgotten contexts of the Pavilion's genesis. Habitually thought of as an abstract, unpolluted, and splendidly isolated building--a precursor of Mies's American period--the Pavilion is revealed here as a thoroughly European work, perhaps less pristine but more authentic. Mies and Lilly Reich were commissioned to design not only the Pavilion but also more than one hundred thousand square feet of German stands spread throughout the...