Fray Antonio de San José Pontones

"Taking over the baton from their mentor and friend Eduardo Chillida, the architects Juan Carlos Sancho (San Sebastián, 1957) and Sol Madridejos (Madrid, 1958) have pursued a sensitive dialectic between matter and void that lies at the foundations of a fertile formal laboratory, one where the fold is an instrument with great potential in the attainment of structural, spatial, and material coherence. In these pages Arquitectura Viva presents a selection of four Spanish works – ranging from a small chapel to a large educational complex – in which the duo composes variations on the same...

Xavier Bordils (Castelló, 1939) has stood out for his contributions to promote and spread design, graphic design and packaging, as well as for his intense projectual activity. Convictions and preferences are summarised in the text that goes with his mark: ¿Xavier Bordils: anti-stylist design, graphic design, structural design, global design, utilitary design, industrial product design, sematic design, architectural design, design, blah, blah, blah.¿

Enric Miralles (1955-2000) es considerado una de las figuras clave para entender la arquitectura española reciente y muchos de los temas recurrentes que hoy se manejan en la práctica y la teoría arquitectónicas contemporáneas. Este libro recoge una conversación, inédita hasta ahora, que el arquitecto barcelonés mantuvo con Enrique Walker en 1999 a raíz de un escrito del propio Miralles sobre James Lord y Alberto Giacometti, una de las últimas conversaciones importantes mantenida con Luis Moreno Mansilla y Emilio Tuñón y una serie de fragmentos de otras conversaciones en las que...

How much importance do we give to the settings in which we live, sleep and relax when we go travelling? Nowadays travel usually means spending time in hotels, and these establishments have set about specializing in order to satisfy the varied needs of their guests. In this book we have sought to open a window on today's highly innovative hotels by showcasing some particularly attractive examples from all over the world. All the hotels that we have gathered together are united by a quest for up-to-date design aimed at providing a welcome for business travelers or tourists.