San Juan del Río

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.¿

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style and accomplishments written by a leading architecture critic. Then, approximately twenty noteworthy works and projects are discussed by the architect and presented in detail with site plans, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.

De pronto, la ciudad por antonomasia del desierto, Las Vegas, cumple cien años. Una existencia longeva, sin duda, para un non-place que brotó casi accidentalmente en unos parajes tan inhóspitos y vacíos como eran los altiplanos de Nevada. Tras una gestación no muy distinta en avatares a la de cualquier otra town del lejano y salvaje Oeste, experimentó una agitada y prolongada adolescencia, hasta que durante los años sesenta del siglo pasado alcanzó una mayoría de edad urdida en las trastiendas de los centros más acendrados del Mob, ambientada en los ruidos cansinos de las ruletas y...

Features a selection examining houses that have broken away from the past and that define today's innovation and tomorrow's classicism. The book does not aim to convert these houses into prototypes to follow; they are included because they reflect the peculiarities of their era, sites and owners.