Colega, ¿dónde está mi urbe?

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 ...

The life and architecture of Cetto, a brilliant architect intellectually formed around the German expressionist movement and who, when arriving in Mexico "revalues" the traditional materials and proceedings of the Mexican culture integrating them gradually into his architecture. Part of a monographic series on 20th century modern architects.

The shopping mall is one of the typologies most succesfully developed in the twentieth century. The work of the Mexican architural firm Grupo Arquitech has ventured into this fertile territory. Directed by Juan José Sánchez since 1987. In the space of a few years, Arquitech has designed the main malls in Mexico, perfecting a model that accurately define the limit. This is the first major documentation of their work.

Desde hace años se asiste al retorno de los modos de la arquitectura moderna, tras cuarenta años de ajetreo doctrinal. Durante este tiempo, con el pretexto de corregir las desviaciones de una modernidad mítica y, a menudo, mal entendida, se consiguió confundir su auténtico sentido y acabar con un modo de concebir intenso y relativamente generalizado. Las posiciones de enmienda se fundamentaban, por lo común, en argumentaciones morales, cuando no meramente costumbristas: en ningún caso fueron capaces de proponer un sistema visual alternativo al que fecundó la mejor arquitectura del...