De la construcción a los proyectos

A collection of writings by Enrique Yañez to mark the twentieth anniversary of his death. The text presents an approach to life and observations of the architect, covering the fields of architecture, its social function, urbanism, society and culture.

Cecilia Puga belongs, along with Smiljan Radic, Alejandro Aravena and Pezo von Ellrichshausen, to a new generation of Chilean architects who from their peripheral situation address concerns that are very much in keeping with certain avenues explored by European architecture. This issue of 2G brings together seventeen buildings and projects by the Chilean architect, including the exemplary House in Bah’a Azul, in which the classic icon of the section of a house - the outline any child might draw - is manipulated, pivoted and transformed to produce a sense of strangeness in relation to its...

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...

66 temas basicos de diseno arquitectonico, su historia y su tecnologia, agrupados con arreglo a ideas generales que van introduciendo al lector en el significado de las definiciones particulares en terminos afines o conexos, clarificando de esta forma la relacion entre ellos. Cada una de las paginas de gran formato esta repleta de terminos e ilustraciones interrelacionadas, que permiten trabajar a partir de un concepto global, de manera que resulta sumamente sencillo localizar los terminos mas dificiles con solo buscarlos bajo el tema general. Si el contexto del termino se desconoce, siempre...