Simon Ungers

In March of 2017, Swiss architect Peter Zumthor (1943) visited Mexico to participate in MEXTRÓPOLI. The winner of the 2009 Pritzker Prize and 2013 RIBA Royal Gold Medal had four different conversations with Mexican architects.

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.

Barcelona 1992-2004 offers a selection of chronologically arranged projects that provide an overview of the period that commences with the 1992 Olympic Games and culminates in the huge cultural event that is the Universal Forum of Cultures-Barcelona 2004. The selection has focused in particular on projects involving the city’s openness to the sea and those which have managed to adapt to its existing residential fabric. Presented as separate chapters are projects for new high-rise buildings and schemes for the 22@ plan and the Universal Forum of Cultures. The selection is preceded by a text...

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.