Composición centralizada. Ensayos en torno a ocho casas de madera
(November 2024)
Cristian Izquierdo
Softcover
12 x 17 cm | 224 pp.
Spanish
ISBN: 978-956-6204-21-3
The detailed examination of the eight houses included in this book allows the author to articulate a carefully reasoned stance on architectural design. Composición centralizada intertwines theory and practice, offering a critical reflection on central concepts of the discipline. Through essays and projects, the book delves into the creative process of the centralized floorplan, tracing its historical significance in architecture while developing a theory on its compositional principles and the expressive potential of its elements and relationships. Here, architecture emerges as a field of both technical precision and profound expressiveness, where the intimate and the collective are constantly negotiated.
This book facilitates an understanding of the projects from a constructive perspective and advances new interpretations of composition, character, and the cultural scope of the built environment. Geared toward architects and students, Composición centralizada offers a sharp perspective on the design process and contemporary housing.
Cristian Izquierdo is an architect from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2008. MSc from Columbia University, 2014. He is a partner at Izquierdo Lehmann Arquitectos and founded Taller Tecton in 2022, a company dedicated to managing, designing, and constructing low-emission buildings through protocols that integrate analysis, design, coordination, fabrication, and construction into a continuous process. His projects are featured in the monograph El material de lo construido (Bisman, 2024) and in various books and magazines, as well as in exhibitions in cities such as New York, Tokyo, and Chicago. He has received awards such as House of the Year (2017, Ljubljana), the Architectural Record Design Vanguard (New York, 2020), and the AOA Medal for Outstanding Young Architect (2021), among others, and was a finalist for MCHAP.emerge in 2018 and 2022. In addition to his practice, he has taught courses at universities in Santiago, Quito, London, and Venice, and has lectured in the U.S., Japan, Italy, and England. He is currently working on projects meeting net-zero carbon standards and Profesor de Planta Especial at the UC School of Architecture.