Sagrada Familia s. XXI

Visiting an exhibition by Leonardo Nierman is penetrating a space that invites us to dream in infinities, to discover exteriors and interiors of cosmic worlds. The exhibition Genesis de un Sueno (Genesis of a Dream) mounted at the Contemporary University Museum of Art in Mexico City conveyed such sensations to visitors. Running from May through August of 1996, it featured three hundred of Nierman's works spanning forty years and was reinstalled by popular demand through January 1997. Its beauty and mystery are now captured in this elegant volume. Nierman: Genesis de un Sueno is a celebration...

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 ...

Ten examples of "private neighborhoods" or residential urbanizations mainly in the area surrounding Buenos Aires mostly built between 1990-2000 including neighborhoods with communal services, the country club, small farms or "club de chacras," a mountain village and large towns.

El estudio de las imágenes urbanas ofrece un campo muy rico de interpretaciones, porque analizándolas podriamos llegar a la elaboración de discursos sobre el poder y el conocimiento, sobre la ciencia, sobre el gusto, sobre lo imaginado y lo real, sobre la identidad y la alteridad, sobre el progreso, sobre la sociedad, o sobre la vida del ciudadano, por no citar lo inmediato, como son los signos de la grandeza urbana tal como se fueron definiendo entre los siglos XV y XVIII.