ANTIARQUITECTURA Y DECONSTRUCCION

La construcción tabicada tiene una larga historia en España. Tras la guerra de 1936-39, motivos económicos produjeron un resurgir de esta forma constructiva. A principios de los años 1950, Angel Truñó, arquitecto y profesor de la Escuela de Arquitectura de Barcelona, escribió un texto en el que describía la construcción de bóvedas tabicadas, explicando todo el detalle de los procesos constructivos, con ayuda de dibujos y numerosas fotografías. Los ejemplos se refieren, en su mayor parte, a obras proyectadas y construidas por el propio autor, El mecanoscrito no llegó a publicarse y ...

Annotated guide to the architectural patrimony of UNAM, Mexico's largest university. It covers the colonial and other historic buildings in downtown Mexico City, the 20th century complexes, library, public art and other buildings in the Ciudad Universitaria as well as buildings throughout Mexico. With many illustrations and location maps.

The expert contributors to this lavishly illustrated volume, devoted entirely to Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion of 1929, address here for the first time the forgotten contexts of the Pavilion's genesis. Habitually thought of as an abstract, unpolluted, and splendidly isolated building--a precursor of Mies's American period--the Pavilion is revealed here as a thoroughly European work, perhaps less pristine but more authentic. Mies and Lilly Reich were commissioned to design not only the Pavilion but also more than one hundred thousand square feet of German stands spread throughout the...

In the immediate postwar years, a new type of modern architecture emerges. Beatriz Colomina presents domesticity as a potent new weapon in a changed architectural battlefield. This architecture becomes the property of the middle-class consumer bombarded with images of domestic bliss, a lifestyle campaign launched through recycled military techniques. The significance of architects like Charles and Ray Eames lies in their sensitivity to buildings and images both defining space. Colomina is Director of Princeton University's Architecture PhD program and acclaimed author of Privacy and Publicity ...