Mario Botta/Spanish/English

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 subject of this artist's sketchbook is an artistic and environmental project that was inaugurated by Cristina Iglesias on November 6, 2010. It concerns an underwater labyrinth, consisting of three submerged rooms built in cement, in the waters off the Espiritu Santo Island in Baja California's Candelero Bay. This house will slowly be inhabited by life. The project was promoted by the Fundación Mexicana para la Educación Ambiental A.C. (Fundea), in collaboration with the marine biologists and conservationists of the La Paz Coasts and The San Diego Oceanography Institute. This portfolio...

London is famous for Big Ben; Paris for the Eiffel Tower; Rome for the Colosseum. Barcelona, on the other hand, is not identified by one or two famous buildings as these other European cities, but rather by an entire movement of turn-of-the-century architecture known simply as Modernisme. Familiar to Americans as art nouveau, its most famous practitioner was the artist and architect Antoni Gaudi. But the city is filled with superb examples of art nouveau in vivid color in Barcelona Art Nouveau. This book offers a tour of 46 houses, public buildings, and monuments in the art-nouveau style,...

Arquitectura y magia es la investigación definitiva del profesor René Taylor sobre los misterios conceptuales que encierra El Escorial. Sostiene Taylor que Felipe II y Juan de Herrera eran hombres de su tiempo y, en consecuencia, abiertos a ciertas ideas de carácter arcano muy diseminadas entonces entre los individuos más cultos, ideas que posiblemente influyeron en el desarrollo de El Escorial. En las piedras, en los frescos y aun en la planta de este templo singular perviven, según Taylor, significados ocultos que sólo cabe descifrar con los criterios de quienes entendían la...