I-Polis

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.¿

An architecture school celebrates its 10th anniversary by publishing representative student work, but concerned with how readers often fail to acknowledge and ultimately disregard the relevance of student ideas, reducing them to mere image-making. Instead of listing projects by type or name, it was decided they would be presented in question format (bilingually), underlining the importance of inquiry over image. Question entries numbered from 1 to 100 (grouped by theme) predetermined the books format. Elegance (it is about architecture) and informality (but also about students) had to be...

La actualidad e interés de cuanto este libro plantea quedaría demostrada con solo llevar a cabo una visión retrospectiva de algunos aspectos del desarrollo de la restauración en nuestro país.

Introducción: ¿Estás preparado para diseñar el futuro? Muchos de nosotros sentimos que, para preparar nuestro futuro, basta con pensar, actuar y aprender usando los métodos y valores presentes; nada más lejos de la realidad—especialmente en el mundo cambiante de hoy. Un niño recién nacido entra a un mundo que no ha sido construido por él o ella. Cada generación ha heredado los valores, logros, esperanzas, éxitos y fracasos de las generaciones predecesoras. Heredamos los resultados de las decisiones tomadas por generaciones anteriores. Durante los cientos de miles de años de...