Ciudad Memoria y Paisaje

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.

Ruinas modernas, una topografía de lucro es un inventario fotográfico de la construcción especulativa en España. Se retratan parajes ocupados por urbanizaciones abandonadas; paisajes residuo que muestran la herencia en el territorio del estallido de la burbuja inmobiliaria.

Las obras de Landa García Landa publicadas en este libro son una magnífica muestra de lo mejor de la arquitectura mexicana actual. Este grupo de arquitectos de Monterrey, formado por Agustín Landa, Roberto García e Ignacio Landa, ha realizado en pocos años una obra ejemplar, sustentada en el oficio y el método, desde su condición funcional y didáctica. Su trabajo destaca por una arquitectura moderna “sin estilo”, aunque fácilmente reconocible y enormemente variada que abarca un amplio espectro de tipologías, escalas y funciones. A través de 18 proyectos construidos más 17...

Having graduated from Cornell University, Richard Meier established his own architectural firm in New York City in 1963, around a group known as the "Five Architects" of New York. This book includes 70 works and projects, chronologically ordered, from his first private houses around New York, to the most recent cultural centres, museums, corporate buildings and city planning for different cities in Europe, Asia and USA. This book, abundantly illustrated and documented, offers a chronological survey, from the first houses in the Hamptons to the most recent buildings including the Getty Center...