Enrique Nafarrate

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...

Visiting an exhibition by Leonardo Nierman is penetrating a space that invites us to dream in infinities, to discover exteriors and interiors of cosmic worlds. The exhibition Genesis de un Sueno (Genesis of a Dream) mounted at the Contemporary University Museum of Art in Mexico City conveyed such sensations to visitors. Running from May through August of 1996, it featured three hundred of Nierman's works spanning forty years and was reinstalled by popular demand through January 1997. Its beauty and mystery are now captured in this elegant volume. Nierman: Genesis de un Sueno is a celebration...

A mediados del XIX el Ayuntamiento de Sevilla, impulsado por la necesidad de extinguir la mendicidad en las calles de la capital, fundó el Asilo de Mendicidad de San Fernando para recoger en él a cuantos niños y mayores que, bien por su avanzada edad o por encontrarse desamparados y en la orfandad, necesitaran ser asistidos.

Examen de cuatro arquitectos en cuya obra el componente táctil de la artesanía y la luminosidad de su sencilla exposición se combinan refinándose hasta un grado sin precedentes. Aunque los arquitectos -David Chipperfield (Londres), Waro Kishi (Kyoto), Eduardo Souto de Moura (Lisboa) y Tod Williams y Billie Tsien (Nueva York)- proceden de culturas muy diferentes, su arquitectura manifiesta una extraña visión de pureza y serenidad independientes del tiempo y el espacio. Desde las delicadas reinterpretaciones que hace Chipperfield de las formas históricas hasta la exquisita contención...