Volumen 16 La Casa

This volume features 25 architectural works constructed in Chile by architect Valdés between 1963 and 2007. It also comprises a series of texts that the author gathered after several conversations with the architect from 2001 to 2006, in a first-hand account of the creative process established by the architect about design, material, construction and space.

Este libro fue diseñado para aquellos que están estudiando para ser Obá Oriaté o para los que ya lo son. Este libro NO es apto para los NO CONSAGRADOS, o como más se conoce como ALEYOS y ABORISHA´s. FUe inspirado por el deseo de conservar la esencia y raíces de la forma tradicional de como dirigir el ceremonial de coronación osrisha, uno de los más importantes ritos dentro de la Regla de Osha.

Text (in Spanish) and images complement each other to create a narrative thread that offers informative insights into the architect's intellectual and visual imagination and expands our understanding of Olgiati's oeuvre.

"Barcelona" presents a study-in text and photographic image-of one of the most architecturally fascinating and impressive cities in the world. From the Gaudí cathedral to Albert Viaplana and Helio Piñón's recent Centre de Cultura Contemporània, from the Palau de la Musica to the Dali Museum, what we find is a city whose magnificent strength lies in the coexistence of its amazingly diverse and historically disparate variety of structures. The city of Barcelona absorbs new influences and maintains traditions organically, avoiding a sense of fragmentation for a sense of exuberance and...