La caricia de la luz

Al igual que la poesía necesita de la materialidad de la palabra para llegar a conmovernos en lo mas hondo, la luz, el material central de la arquitectura necesita de la gravedad, de la masa, para poder ser atrapada por ella y mover el corazón de los hombres. No en vano luz y gravedad son temas centrales de la arquitectura.

Menos no es siempre más, ni mucho menos = Less isn't always more, not by any means

"Think rationally, but cultivate an artistic sensibility" recommended Henry van de Velde in 1903. This is the direction chosen by three young architects, Marten Claesson, Eero Koivisto and Ola Rune, who have their own practice in Stockholm since 1993. Architects, interior designers, furniture designers and teachers, they entered the professional world with Vila Wabi, an elongated box, temporarily set into the Sergel square (Stockholm), designed to house a family of four. Since then, they have designed a big number of shops, showrooms, bars and restaurants, offices and houses mostly in Sweden but also abroad. Despite an international outlook and appeal the practice makes part of an ongoing tradition of Scandinavian design.

Unbundling tolls from contracts: a new road PPP model

Considerable evidence from different countries has revealed important shortcomings in most road public-private partnership (PPP) models. In this paper a new PPP model is presented that overcomes some of the problems found in PPP road contracts. The new model is based on separating user tolls from the fees paid to PPP contractors and setting up new institutional arrangements to oversee PPPs.

Prólogo. Dicho y hecho

Prólogo

Preface. The Language of Architecture and Civil Engineering

Preface

Esta es la caja

Homenaje a Javier Carvajal

E pur si muove

Prólogo del libro Voiture minimum : Le Corbusier y el automóvil, de Antonio Amado Lorenzo

Un'idea nel palmo di una mano = An idea in the palm of a hand

Una idea en la palma de una mano. Texto en italiano e inglés.

Essentiality: More with less

Manifesto, idea, light, space.

El cielo sobre el cielo = O céu sobre o céu

Sobre el Centro José Guerrero de Antonio Jiménez Torrecillas en Granada.

Una architettura come me (sobre la arquitectura de César Ruiz-Larrea)

Una architettura come me (sobre la arquitectura de César Ruiz-Larrea): VIVIENDA EN EL HIERRO, OFICINAS EN ALCALA GALIANO, LAS PIRAMIDES DE GÜIMAR, CANAL PLUS, UN ARQUITECTO EN SAZON

Résistez, maudits! = Resist, damm you!

Où sont les frontières de l'architecture ? A. Campo Baeza dresse un tableau de l'architecture en Espagne qui n'a plus rien à voir avec celles des nations.