Simon Ungers

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...

Este libro documenta la conversación de Carmelo Di Bartolo, experimentado diseñador italiano, con los alumnos de la Escuela de Arquitectura, Arte y Diseño del Tecnológico de Monterrey.

A study of Bogota viewed as a museum (outside of the traditional museum). This work offers a critical look at modern city through a series of tours through downtown Bogotá, specifically on Seventh Avenue between Calles 11 and 16 that was transformed from Bogotazo through an urban renewal project. It turned the area into a paradigm of what should be a modern Bogotá. The book discusses the aesthetic character of its architecture, the connections between traditional museums, and reaffirmed the principles of order and functionality of the modern movement and led to rules that have sought...

Cristian Jara relata la historia de los arquitectos de Chile durante el siglo XX, desde la etapa inmediatamente previa a la fundación del Colegio de la orden hasta la actualidad. El autor sostiene que desde el comienzo del periodo, los arquitectos nacionales alcanzaron una identidad profesional y gremial ligada a las necesidades que la sociedad iba planteando y estrechamente conectada con las ideas de la Arquitectura Moderna: "Los arquitectos llegaron a coincidir en que su rol social debía ser contribuir a la construcción de la ciudad moderna, y para lograr dicho objetivo debían obtener...