Introducción a la historia de la arquitectura

Esta obra es un texto fundamental que recoge las Kahn Lectures que Frank Lloyd Wright pronunció en 1930. En ellas, el autor expone los cuatro principios de una arquitectura fundamentalmente nueva y orgánica que se aleja de los cánones de los estilos históricos y rechaza las abstracciones geométricas de los modernistas europeos que eran sus contemporáneos. Este es uno de los documentos más importantes en el desarrollo de la arquitectura moderna y de la carrera de su autor. Es un manifiesto contra el eclecticismo arquitectónico estadounidense, en el que Lloyd Wright presenta su...

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 ...

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...

Founder of Teodoro Fernández Arquitectos, an architectural firm that, since 1992, develops private and public buildings. In parallel, his practice has developed a series of landscape projects for the central area of Chile from the perspective of water care, soil strengthening and the integration of biodynamic criteria. Among his works are the ecological corridors for the vineyard Los Robles, the green areas of the urbanization La Reserva, the Parque Inés de Suárez, the Parque Bicentenario and the remodeling of the Parque Quinta Normal. In 2014 Teodoro Fernández received the Premio...