Arquitectura y diseño

The book presents the works of three Latin American architects whose designs share functionality and a unique and a protagonist vision of space. Architects Carlos Ott (b. Uruguay) and Mathias Klotz (b. Chile) are two of the most influential architects of Latin America recognized internationally with numerous prizes and with constructed projects in America, Asia and Europe, while young and noted architect Christian Wiese (b. Ecuador) is probably the best known architect in Ecuador with a solid international trajectory.

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...

200 colour photos and plans ”One of a series of authoritative pocket guides introduced only last fall, the Paris and : guide provides tourists and professionals alike with an overview of new and notable architecture and interior design in "the city of light." More than sixty buildings-governmental and residential, commercial and religious-by renowned architects such as Mario Botta, Jean Nouvel, Renzo Piano, Tadao Ando and I. M. Pei to name a few, are profiled and accompanied by color photographs. Easy to use and attractively designed with flexi covers, these CD-sized gems will be a...

El presente libro trata sobre un tema actual y vigente: el entorno urbano -las ciudades-. En él, un grupo interdisciplinario conformado por físicos, biólogos, arquitectos, economistas, diseñadores y urbanistas, discuten sus ideas y visiones guiados y unificados bajo el paradigma y enfoque de la complejidad. Se trata de entender y explicar fenómenos emergentes y colectivos en el contexto urbano, haciendo uso conceptual de lo que en física llaman el "principio de superposición": el todo es más que la suma de las partes. Así, las ciudades son más que la suma de sus espacios...