Adolf Loos 1870-1933

In September of 2005 a group academics, civil organizations and federal, state and municipal government representatives were summoned with the purpose of analyzing the legislature, experiences and strategies developed for the protection and conservation of the cultural patrimony of Mexico. The meeting was held in the city of Morelia (State of Michoacn) where most of the conservation and protection efforts of viceregal architecture specialist Manuel González Galván took place, the reason which is why this colloquium honored his legacy. "After reading this memoirs of this colloquium, it is...

La hegemonía del pensamiento, y sobre todo de la propaganda neoliberal, han abierto una profunda brecha entre el poder constituido y las necesidades reales de la mayoría de la población (desde los sectores populares a las clases medias urbanas) que sufre las consecuencias del ajuste sobre el ajuste, en una espiral de deterioro cuyo final no parece vislumbrarse. Las disciplinas del hábitat no son ajenas a esta crisis, y, al igual que el conjunto social, se debaten entre las urgencias laborales, los condicionamientos impuestos por la concentración de capitales y poderes decisorios y la...

"Barcelona" presents a study-in text and photographic image-of one of the most architecturally fascinating and impressive cities in the world. From the Gaudí cathedral to Albert Viaplana and Helio Piñón's recent Centre de Cultura Contemporània, from the Palau de la Musica to the Dali Museum, what we find is a city whose magnificent strength lies in the coexistence of its amazingly diverse and historically disparate variety of structures. The city of Barcelona absorbs new influences and maintains traditions organically, avoiding a sense of fragmentation for a sense of exuberance and...

Known until recently for such public facilities as the Zamora Municipal Museum, the Castellón Fine Arts Museum and the León Auditorium, over the last few years Mansilla + Tuñón have developed a number of projects in which urban scale and the problems of inhabiting in the contemporary city assume more and more importance. In this issue of 2G we present the (almost) complete works of these Madrid architects, works grouped around the basic ideas which define their projects, namely memory and the city, system and restrictions, sameness and difference, and lastly trace and landscape. These...