La Habana, arquitectura del siglo XX

El declive, la decadencia y el deterioro son parte necesaria de la vida y del crecimiento; debemos aprender a valorarlos y a gestionarlos bien. Éste es uno de los mensajes del último libro póstumo de Kevin Lynch. De todas las criaturas vivas, los humanos somos los supremos creadores de desechos, aunque sólo recientemente hemos comenzado a pensar seriamente acerca de las formas de nuestro derroche. Va quedando claro que nuestros desechos nos afectan profundamente; amenazan nuestros sentimientos, nuestra salud y nuestro confort diario, así como nuestra propia subsistencia. Kevin Lynch...

"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

A compilation of texts by Professor Julio Arroyo previously presented in different academic meetings make up the present edition centered in public spaces in contemporary cities and the architecture that is concomitant, taking as a study reference the city of Santa Fe. Public spaces are a crucial category of urban life. However, in contemporary cities inconsistencies and contradictions prevail against the ethical postulates that define them -social cohesion, democratic inclusion, free expression, symbolic representation of citizen values- and the phenomena of what is public, dissociated in...

"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...