Problemas de planos acotados en ingeniería

Un nuevo y amplio ensayo sobre este admirado estilo en la arquitectura, con ejemplos de sus comienzos "brutales" en los años 50 hasta nuestros días. Nos presenta muchos edificios brutalistas casi desconocidos del antiguo bloque comunista de Europa y de otros lugares del planeta. Contiene el trabajo de los grandes arquitectos contemporáneos como Zaha Hadid, David Chipperfield, Herzog & de Meuron, John Pawson, Jean Nouvel, Toyo Ito, Peter Zumthor, Daniel Libeskind, Thomas Heatherwick, Rem Koolhaas / OMA, Peter Eisenman, O Tadao Ando. Contiene el trabajo de los grandes maestros del siglo XX...

Life and work of polemic architect and urbanist Meyer (b. Switzerland), one of the most important functionalists of the 1920's. The former director of the Bauhaus, he worked for the Post-Revolutionary Regimes in Mexico as the director of the Instituto del Urbanismo y Planification from 1942 through 1949, while also becoming the editor of the collective graphic workshop Taller de Grafica Popular (TGP) from 1947 to 1949. Many plates of his architectural designs and the structural diagrams Meyer used for the Bauhaus and in IUP in Mexico.

"CEDODAL in collaboration with the Estrada family organized an exhibition and the present accompanying book that examines the life and professional career of Argentinean architect Estrada. The book gathers various authors who review in their texts the influence German architect Hermann Jansen had over the young Estrada, his integration to the National Forests project (1934) and his legacy in the planning of urban centers, infrastructure works and tourism and hotel architecture particularly in the Patagonian region. Estrada's culmination was the Civic Center of Bariloche, (today historic and...

Mallol is an architectural design center that functions under the lead of its director and promoter, Panamanian architect Ignacio Mallol Tamayo. This edition examines 25 year of professional operations of the largest architectural firm in Central America and illustrates, with more than 270 color images, representative examples of Latin American 21st century architecture, highlighting the firm's most representative buildings: Le Cube Mallol, one of the early designs (where Mallol plays with forms, space and symetry), a clear example of the type of large constructions that would later...