La Investigación En La Arquitectura

This series was the winner of the American Institute of Architects' prestigious "Award for Excellence in International Book Publishing". Each volume in this series is introduced with an essay on the architect, and a chronological or stylistic presentation of their most outstanding buildings and projects. No other series provides such a complete and concise summary of the world's leading architects' works. The volumes are fully illustrated in black-and-white with photos and project renderings.

Esta obra recoge en forma de apunte los textos de las conferencias dictadas en la Sociedad Central de Arquitectos, en marzo de 2004, en ocasión de la realización del Seminario Internacional "Diversas maneras de mirar el paisaje", con el auspicio de los gobiernos de Alemania y Francia. Los temas tratados son: Paisaje con un filósofo, un geógrafo y un historiador, por el Dr. Michel Baridon (la mirada cultural); La Pampa: paisaje de velada dialéctica, por el Ing. Carlos Thays y el Arq. Jorge Bayá Casal (la mirada del paisajista); Vanguardia y arquitectura de jardín en Alemania. Un...

A man (evidently the architect Mies van der Rohe), stands in a room in a glass-and-steel building. This is the scene that author Ricardo Daza uses for his investigation into the man, the room, the building, and what the architect is looking at. Looking for Mies unfolds like a detective novel, complete with deductions, revelations, and conclusions about the architect's work. This fascinating study of van der Rohe is illustrated with 160 duotones.

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...