Hablan los arquitectos

This volume records the stunning architecture of the pharaohs ranging from 3,000 B.C. to the Egyptian style of today. It takes readers from the Sudan to the Mediterranean, and from simple clay brick buildings to monumental pyramids. Recent research and evocative pictures create a new view of the oldest architecture in the world - a very special kind of journey through Egypt.

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...

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...

El legado de Frederick Law Olmsted es mucho más célebre que su nombre. Millones de personas continúan disfrutando de los espacios que imaginó y diseñó hace más de un siglo y que reconocemos sin haberlos visitado: el Central Park de Nueva York, el parque nacional de Yosemite en California, los jardines del Capitolio en Washington, entre otros. Los cuatro textos aquí reunidos, por primera vez en español, exponen la importancia de crear reservas naturales salvaguardando su libre acceso y recorrido; explican la necesidad de planificar la presencia de la naturaleza en las ciudades;...