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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...

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 ...

libro evidencia un ejercicio académico de revisión de literatura y teoría, para luego llevar a los investigadores al terreno a observar y analizar, y volver a la propuesta aplicada a un caso puntual para transformar una zona específica de una ciudad es un espacio legible e inteligible. Se puede afirmar, entonces, que se trata de un trabajo teórico-práctico-teórico con un objetivo propositivo que busca acciones concretas de transformación del espacio urbano de Cali.

"La Secretaría de Cultura de la Municipalidad de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires seleccionó este libro y contrató su re-edición en homenaje al IV Centenario de la Fundación de la Ciudad por Juan de Garay."--Colophon