Arquitectura y climas

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Arquitecto y Destinatario se ocupa de un tema que ha estado relegado de la agenda de la disciplina. A modo de guía o referencia para ejercitar la comunicación, la reflexión y la paciencia, aporta herramientas para el abordaje de las múltiples situaciones que se presentan en el complejo escenario de las relaciones entre clientes y arquitectos. En su desarrollo van apareciendo los protagonistas del proceso proyectual: el arquitecto profesional y los distintos tipos de clientes –el comitente, el usuario y, finalmente, el destinatario. El libro argumenta a favor de estos actores como...

Features a selection examining houses that have broken away from the past and that define today's innovation and tomorrow's classicism. The book does not aim to convert these houses into prototypes to follow; they are included because they reflect the peculiarities of their era, sites and owners.

The remarkably prolific career of an innovative young Chilean architect is profiled in this engaging study. Born in 1965 and in professional practice since 1991, this architect's impact on his native landscape is observed mainly in a series of private houses located in some of the most sublime sites in Chile. The forceful yet austere character of his design approach and its radical relationship to surrounding landscape elements can be fully appreciated by viewing this book's fine pictorial panorama.