Conceptos básicos de estructuras resistentes

The bathroom is no longer given over solely to personal hygiene, but instead has become a room in which freedom of design and expression can be achieved. This book features some of the most practical designs which still manage to integrate aesthetic qualities.

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...

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 ...

El encuentro con sobrecogedoras impresiones arquetípicas puede conducir a la transformación de lo real, pero también puede impedirla. Son las dos caras del mito. De un lado, el mágico poder de producir lo real; del otro, la confianza en la simple ilusión. Cuando el hombre se siente inseguro, pensaba Jung, las fuerzas celestiales se le aproximan. Cuando el hombre se siente seguro, cabría suponer, las fuerzas celestiales se alejan. Pero es difícil saber hasta qué punto el hombre puede sentirse seguro sin recurrir a los ídolos o los dioses. Después de profanar los viejos altares, los...