Mario Botta/Spanish/English

Es objetivo de este trabajo abordar el dibujo analógico, no digital, a través del muestreo de los croquis, los análisis y los proyectos de los mejores alumnos del curso inicial de la Facultad de Arquitectura. De esta manera redescubrimos los extraordinarios dibujos de croquis perspectívicos de la ciudad de Rosario en el Capítulo 1, de análisis de obras de arquitectura paradigmáticas en el Capítulo 2 y proyectos de arquitectura de los propios alumnos en la Capítulo 3. Los mejores alumnos adquieren un conocimiento profundo, interesándose en la asignatura y sumergiéndose en un proceso ...

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...

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...

How much importance do we give to the settings in which we live, sleep and relax when we go travelling? Nowadays travel usually means spending time in hotels, and these establishments have set about specializing in order to satisfy the varied needs of their guests. In this book we have sought to open a window on today's highly innovative hotels by showcasing some particularly attractive examples from all over the world. All the hotels that we have gathered together are united by a quest for up-to-date design aimed at providing a welcome for business travelers or tourists.