La Existencia, el Lugar y la Arquitectura

En su discurso de ingreso a El Colegio Nacional, Felipe Leal se remonta a los orígenes de la arquitectura —“testigo insobornable de la historia”, según Octavio Paz— y señala su importancia como hecho cultural, fundamental en la organización de las sociedades. Partiendo de la premisa de que la arquitectura “está hecha para celebrar el arte de vivir”, Leal expone los retos que enfrenta esta disciplina en el mundo posmoderno, en el cual solo veinticinco por ciento de la humanidad vive en condiciones aceptables. Felipe Leal dedica buena parte de su discurso al caso de la Ciudad...

The book is devoted to young architect Christian Wiese's architecture firm, presenting a selection of buildings that reflect international tendencies harmoniously combined with Ecuador's heritage and values. His already prolific and international well recognized practice includes technologically advanced buildings, characteristic for their clarity and transparency and unique for his masterly manipulation of interior and exterior space light interaction.

The book Did Someone Say Participate? has been published by the MIT Press in the year 2006. dpr-barcelona going on with it's philosophy to share interesting contents with our readers and having noticed that this amazing book talks about the most actual and contemporary topics (as it is participation and social projects with personal involvement, looking for a chance to make radical change in today’s cities) has decided to translate and distribute the book all over the world, especially in Latin America and Spain, to bring all Spanish-speakers the chance to get to know all the great projects ...

A study by the founder of the Escuela de Arquitectura de la Universidad del Bío-Bío. The first part is a history from pre-Columbian times to 1973, omitting the long colonial period. The second part considers the evolution of urbanism in Chile and includes a chronology of national and international architectural events and several annexes.