Lecture (Spanish)

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.

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 ...

Este volumen reune estudios en torno a las representaciones de la ciudad en la literatura y en las artes. Ciudades imaginadas desde los mitos fundacionales de la cultura occidental hasta las narrativas desarticuladas que genera la urbe posmoderna; ciudades utópicas del Renacimiento y ciudades distópicas del Nuevo Mundo de fin de siglo; son diferentes testimonios de la relevancia de lo urbano en la configuración espacio-temporal del imaginario.

In diesem Klassiker prC$sentiert Willy Boesiger die wichtigsten Bauten, Projekte und stadtplanerischen Entwurfe Le Corbusiers. Das Spektrum reicht von den fruhen HC$userstudien und -bauten, wie z.B. den "Citrohan"-HC$usern, den Weissenhof-HC$usern, der Wohnsiedlung in Pessac bis hin zu groCen Wohn- und GeschC$ftsbauten wie den diversen Unites d'Habitation und dem Haus des Centrosoyus in Moskau u.v.m., von theoretischen Arbeiten wie der Entwicklung des "Modulor," bis hin zu den ausfuhrlich dargestellten Stadtplanungen z.B. fur Algier, Rio de Janiero, Berlin oder Chandigarh. Jedes Projekt wird...