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Mathias Klotz
Since first starting his practice in the late 1980s, the Santiago-based architect Mathias Klotz (b. 1965) has designed buildings from Chile to China that combine Modernist inspiration with local construction techniques. Having won the Borromini prize for best architect under forty in 2001, Klotz has gone from being known in his native Chile for a series of award-winning single-family residences to larger, more challenging projects--including university buildings, military housing, and commercial properties that expand his architectural vision into the international realm.
Contemporary architecture
En Mexico, como en otros lugares y a veces en otros tiempos, identificar un modo de hacer, un estilo, una actitud "correcta" con una tradicion, como estimulo de la identificacion nacionalista, tiende a encauzar la creacion hacia el estereotipo y la imitacion devaluada del modelo seguido, frustra la expresion de un pais rico y complejo, capaz de asimilar la globalizacion actual de nuestro fin de milenio. La seleccion de obras representadas en este libro, que como toda seleccion tiene algo de subjetivo y arbitrario, pretende regirse solo por la calidad arquitectonica, con independencia de las tendencias o escuelas a las que, abierta o veladamente, pertenezca cada autor. Por ello se han selecci...
Constructing Identity in Contemporary Architecture
The global spread of uniform modes of production and cultural values has been accompanied by a dissemination of stereotypes of "modern" architecture styles almost everywhere around the globe. Paradoxically, the reverse process has also emerged: In some countries, the elites feel the necessity to counterbalance the "loss of identity" and defend their own cultures against the "intruding" forces of globalization. What started as a defensive notion has developed into a more progressive attempt to re-create what has allegedly been lost. This trend is being strongly expressed in discourses about architecture in countries of the South. Who are the actors feeling compelled to "construct" new identities? How are these new identities in architecture created in various parts of the world? And, which are the ingredients borrowed from various historical and ethnic traditions and other sources? These and other questions are discussed in five case studies from different parts of the world, written by renowned scholars from Brazil, Mexico, Egypt, India and Singapore.
Bernardo Gomez-Pimienta
La casa gdl1 es una de las primeras obras de Bernardo Gómez-Pimienta en solitario. Después de su largo periplo como fundador y socio de TEN Arquitectos, Gómez-Pimienta desarrolla en esta obra su proyecto total, que va de la arquitectura al diseño, de la casa a la taza. Con textos de Yoshio Futagawa, Dominique Perrault, Carlos Jiménez y Miquel Adrià, quienes apadrinan la audacia y elegancia de Gómez-Pimienta, este libro pretende ser una bocanada de frescura para la cultura arquitectónica mexicana, mostrando una casa donde en palabras de Adrià “la columna más evidente es la que no existe, el espacio central es el que se vacía y el lugar más espectacular es el que no puede transitarse”.
The New Architecture of Mexico
This book explores the modern architecture the modern architecture of Mexico, with an emphasis from the early 1980s to the present day. It is particularly appropriate now, given a renewed interest in the recent modern architecture of Mexico, and as the w
Teodoro González de León : complete work
The story of Mexican architecture in the second half of the twentieth century cannot be told without the work of Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon. His banks, civic buildings, museums and office complexes have contributed to defining the urban texture of a large part of Mexico: the product of a conception of monumentality in which modernity and timelessness seem to coexist. Architect, urbanist, painter and sculptor, Gozalez de Leon is also a tireless promoter of architecture understood as a cultural phenomenon. The publication of the complete works of Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon makes it possible to take in a single glance more than fifty years of militant commitment to the discipline. Some of the archi...
Complete works, Francisco Serrano
A lo largo de 40 años, el despacho de Francisco J. Serrano ha construido un vasto conjunto de obras que reflejan tanto la madurez de su lenguaje como la solidez de su oficio, diseñando con igual versatilidad edificios corporativos y grandes desarrollos de vivienda, la ampliación de la Universidad Iberoamericana y la nueva Terminal del Aeropuerto de laciudad de México. Este libro recoge los hitos más significativos de su trayectoria.
Teodoro González de León
The story of Mexican architecture in the second half of the 20th century cannot be told without the work of Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon, whose complete works are collected in this definitive book. His banks, civic buildings, museums, corporate headquarters and office complexes have contributed to defining the urban texture of a large part of Mexico. Architect, urbanist, painter and sculptor, Gonzalez de Leon is also a tireless promoter of architecture as a cultural phenomenon. This third edition of his Collected Works compiles more than 60 years of militant commitment to the discipline, giving rise to a language as modern as it is timeless. Essays by William J.R. Curtis and Miquel Adria shed light on the evolution and complexity of the architect's work. Also includes texts by the architect himself.
Modern Architecture in Latin America
Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology, and Utopia is an introductory text on the issues, polemics, and works that represent the complex processes of political, economic, and cultural modernization in the twentieth century. The number and types of projects varied greatly from country to country, but, as a whole, the region produced a significant body of architecture that has never before been presented in a single volume in any language. Modern Architecture in Latin America is the first comprehensive history of this important production. Designed as a survey and focused on key examples/paradigms arranged chronologically from 1903 to 2003, this volume covers a myriad of countri...
