En busca de Thomas Reed

The present study identifies and documents the existing 19th architecture ornamental patrimony of the city of Bogot featuring the history and personages involved in the creation of sculptures, relieves, moldings and carvings produced between 1880 and 1930. The study comprises 3 time sections: The first part concentrates in the moment the city started its urban process of modernization and its change to neoclassic an architectonic and construction style. A second focuses in the work of the Ramelli family (Luigi and his sons Colombo and Mauricio), with an inventory of their legacy and the...

Xavier Bordils (Castelló, 1939) has stood out for his contributions to promote and spread design, graphic design and packaging, as well as for his intense projectual activity. Convictions and preferences are summarised in the text that goes with his mark: ¿Xavier Bordils: anti-stylist design, graphic design, structural design, global design, utilitary design, industrial product design, sematic design, architectural design, design, blah, blah, blah.¿

The present research work is based on original manuscripts and testimonies from architect González Gortázar (b. Mexico) regarding his transcendent architecture and urban designs. González Gortázar is considered at present one of the most important architects of México, creator of spaces and urban art that are now geometric symbols and references of the city of Guadalajara in México. The architect strongly practices the concept of "Space and Art" and where the city should never loose their social function for which it was originally conceived and constructed.

Otro apartado con cuerpo propio es el referido a la vivienda unifamiliar, inaugurado por la vivienda en El Mecachón, las Herencias, Toledo y seguida por las viviendas de Miami, Javea y El Escorial. Posteriormente, se realizaron las viviendas que esta publicación recoge y que ilustran a la perfección su trayectoria de todos estos años. En la actualidad, el tema de la vivienda unifamiliar sigue siendo un apartado fundamental del estudio. Pese a la diversidad de circunstancias y soluciones que la vivienda presenta, se descubren líneas de investigación dominantes, como el carácter...