Diseño arquitectónico

With numerous maps, photographs and illustrations, this volume presents a detailed and intelligent analysis of the city.

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.

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.

Este libro recoge obras y proyectos de los últimos años de la carrera del arquitecto mexicano Alberto Kalach, haciendo énfasis especial en los primeros pasos de cada uno de ellos. Como si de una bitácora o libreta de croquis se tratara, el libro procura rescatar la esencia de las ideas y la frescura de los primeros trazos, desde una estructura temática y tipológica que aborda desde la casa unifamiliar a la vivienda colectiva, desde sus proyectos de torres hasta su proyecto La Ciudad Lacustre, proyecto premiado en la Bienal de Venecia (2002) donde se vuelve a llenar de agua los lagos...