"The City Inside the House" is a collection of essays by various authors written during the 9th edition of the URBANBATfest architecture, urbanism, and social innovation festival. The experience of lockdown—spending so much time in our homes—has forced us to focus on the domestic sphere, a concept that has gained particular relevance in current reflections, research, projects, and public policy.
This book explores the enormous impact of medical discourse and imaging technologies on the formation, representation, and reception of 20th-century architecture, while challenging the conventional understanding of modern architecture by proposing that it was shaped by the dominant medical obsession of its time: tuberculosis and its primary diagnostic tool, the X-ray.
This book compiles a series of essays written between 2010 and 2020 by the Belgian architect Kersten Geers. In these texts, he writes about a diverse range of historical architects—from Bramante, Scamozzi, and Mies van der Rohe to Aldo Rossi, James Stirling, Álvaro Siza, and Robert Venturi—who serve not only as companions in his writing but also as a means to construct a theory of contemporary architecture, through which he can address the core issues that inform his own practice.
The fourth issue of Revista Pliego features editorial content curated by the publication's team.
The third issue of Revista Pliego explores in depth the final projects from the architecture studios at the National University of La Matanza. The content is diverse, ranging from innovative technological research to new design models.
Through a panel discussion featuring four expert perspectives and an audience of architects, urban planners, academics, and other industry stakeholders, the Association of Architecture Offices (AOA) presented the 44th issue of Revista AOA. This edition focuses on Santiago’s iconic Plaza Baquedano, tracing its history, past renovation attempts, the social unrest, and the subsequent transformations it has undergone.
Highlighting Alberto Campo Baeza's work is not just an act of recognition for the quality of his professional output, but also a matter of justice regarding his dedication across various facets of the discipline, particularly in teaching. In this sense, this book is not intended to showcase his projects and built works, but rather to share a series of reflections and some of his teachings. It is a modest, personal perspective, filled with records, experiences, and data that I have meticulously gathered over the years.
This book emerged from the first Buenos Aires Publica open call, promoted by the Fundación Tejido Urbano in 2019, and was one of the two inaugural prize winners. The publication is a reworking of the research conducted by the author for their doctoral thesis. The publication’s central argument is that the city of Buenos Aires is the product of deliberate decisions rather than spontaneous growth. In a comprehensive and methodological narrative, the author compiles decades of urban planning decisions embedded in the city, accompanied by a central color section that investigates and reinterprets the most significant maps and plans in the development of our metropolis. It offers an interesting and necessary reflection on the construction of the city through political and state-led actions.
Little is known about the trips Sigurd Lewerentz made to Italy. Among the documents from his estate deposited at the Stockholm Architecture Museum, several boxes contained negatives wrapped in paper that had become brittle with time. These images of Italy barely reveal recognizable locations; instead, they unveil an enigmatic approach to the remains of Antiquity—one focused on details, materials, and textures—that can help us understand the work of the great Swedish architect.
The fifth issue of Revista Pliego compiles the entire output from the second term of the architecture studios at the National University of La Matanza.
Additionally, the Pliego team had the opportunity to interview Juan José Méndez, Secretary of Transportation and Public Works for the Government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, who provided insights into the city's management during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the achievements and challenges that defined his tenure in the government office.
"Mucho cuento: Relatos de arquitectos" brings together 20 stories by prominent figures in the Ibero-American architectural scene, offering a completely new perspective on them—through fiction. The collection includes pieces that border on surrealism, fable-like narratives, first-person accounts, drama, comedy, utopias, an epistolary story, mythology... and, of course, the occasional reference to architecture.
History will likely remember 2020 as a turning point. Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic slowed the relentless advance of the Anthropocene and cast doubt on the capitalist development model. Locally, meanwhile, the principles that have governed us for the last four decades were also called into question, to the point of necessitating a new beginning.
This book is a study of the relationship between architecture and painting through the work of Francisco Méndez Labbé, a pioneer of non-figurative abstract art in Chile and co-founder of the Institute of Architecture at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Méndez Labbé transitioned to painting after training as an architect, at a time when the arts and architecture in Chile were navigating a complex period of integration into the modern art debate.
Living Without a Bathroom: Módulo Sanitario and a Multidimensional Need for 6 Million Argentines
Today, more than half of the world's population lives in urban areas, a process of sustained growth that has persisted in cities and materialized through their expansion. This phenomenon is expected to intensify in the coming years due to several factors, including the concentration of capital, services, facilities, and infrastructure, which has fostered the perception of the city as a place of «opportunity».
This book approaches the question of method in architecture by focusing its analysis primarily on five specific works from the contemporary scene, attempting to unveil the underlying motivations that constitute them.
With a career focused primarily on the public sector, Cristóbal Tirado is the architect behind major projects throughout Chile, such as the renovation of the Mercado Providencia, the Aysén Regional Museum, the International Antarctic Center, the restoration of the Valparaíso elevators, and the remodeling of Plaza Sotomayor in the same city, among others. These are projects in which he has participated through competitions or public tenders.
"Journey" is the topic of the seventh Redes IAAC session, an open, online event broadcast via streaming.