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(Hardback, English)

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Vision of recent buildings and projects from one of the most outstanding European architectural practices, also presented from a multilayered critic panel. to 2015, divided in types and thoroughly explained. Presenting architectural works at the time when they were been done is a critical question to understand, by specific practices, trends into our contemporarity. This book presents a full description of the projects by reelaborated materials (plans, texts, photos) producing a network able to transmit the qualities of the real architecture. Di erent contributions are theoretical. Coming from preeminent academicians, expand the arguments passing from the single cases to a category. With contributions of Erwin Viray, Manel Colominas, Richard Sco er and Laurent Stalder.

Author Bio

Architect ETSAB (Barcelona High Technical Architectural School). PHD (with honors) at the UPC (Polytechnic University of Catalonia). Professor of Architecture and Design at the ETH-Zrich (Swiss Federal institute of Technology) since 2002. Guest Professor at the GSD-Harvard (Graduate School of Design) 2015. Member of l'Ordre des Architectes de Paris, Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects (SIA) in Zrich and the Catalan Professional Architectural Association (COAC) in Barcelona.