Hannes Meyer

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style and accomplishments written by a leading architecture critic. Then, approximately twenty noteworthy works and projects are discussed by the architect and presented in detail with site plans, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.

The book examines the long, productive and stormy relationship architect Le Corbusier had with Argentina and the series of events in consequence. His Argentinean disciples Jorge Ferrari Hardoy, Juan Kurchan and Antonio Bonet, although influenced by the master architect had their own architectonic and urban ideas. The book examines the "Austral Net" created towards the productive, plural and complex relationship of these 4 personages where the central figure is the famed Swiss architect. The book is chronologically organized and includes a selection of the most important architecture...

Las transformaciones son inevitables. Se posan, intervienen, actualizan, adaptan, extienden, amplían: son la relación entre partes construidas en tiempos, materialidades y por actores diferentes. Este libro documenta la experiencia de estudiantes y docentes, que en dos ocasiones se aventuraron a Alemania para investigar las transformaciones edilicias a partir de sus estrategias y proyectos

Founder of Teodoro Fernández Arquitectos, an architectural firm that, since 1992, develops private and public buildings. In parallel, his practice has developed a series of landscape projects for the central area of Chile from the perspective of water care, soil strengthening and the integration of biodynamic criteria. Among his works are the ecological corridors for the vineyard Los Robles, the green areas of the urbanization La Reserva, the Parque Inés de Suárez, the Parque Bicentenario and the remodeling of the Parque Quinta Normal. In 2014 Teodoro Fernández received the Premio...