Our editorial work is channeled into two lines of production: the quarterly publication of ARQ journal and the edition of a wide array of books about architecture, landscape and the city — that to date make up a catalog of over a hundred titles.
Latest bilingual titles (English & Spanish) —
Juan Ignacio Baixas and Tomás de Iruarrizaga
Softcover
17 x 24 cm | 148 pp.
Spanish / English
ISBN: 978-956-6204-03-9
We could say that the form of a work of architecture or a design object is a set of traces that the tools left on the materials. Although the creative process is more than that, and begins begins earlier in the realm of ideas, we cannot deny that manufacturing has an important place in architecture and design.
In the training of the architect and designer (and perhaps some other disciplines), reflection on the process of manufacture seems to be an important part. Even more so if it is prompted by the imperative to generate a finished and useful object that responds to all the requirements of practicality and beauty that make it part of the real world.
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Softcover
17 x 24 cm | 148 pp.
Spanish / English
ISBN: 978-956-6204-03-9
We could say that the form of a work of architecture or a design object is a set of traces that the tools left on the materials. Although the creative process is more than that, and begins begins earlier in the realm of ideas, we cannot deny that manufacturing has an important place in architecture and design.
In the training of the architect and designer (and perhaps some other disciplines), reflection on the process of manufacture seems to be an important part. Even more so if it is prompted by the imperative to generate a finished and useful object that responds to all the requirements of practicality and beauty that make it part of the real world.
“The course presented here is an effort to introduce the manufacturing dimension in the formative process. Its results can be measured in the quality of the objects produced.”
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Francisco Díaz (ed.); several authors
Journal issue; Softcover
20.6 x 27 cm | 156 pp.
Spanish / English
Projects cannot always be formulated beforehand. Sometimes they are conceptualized during their development. At other times, they are too radical to be announced. But most of the time, their formulation is made retrospectively simply because time gives a better perspective about what has been done. This is why it is only now that we can realize the ideas we have been trying to deploy for the last eight years. Given that ARQ has existed since 1980 - and we hope it will continue to exist for many more decades - we can look at what happened in that distant 2015 as a journey that deviated from the previous path, entering lesser-known territories and, perhaps for the same reason, more interesting to explore. Such a detour was imperative: the trajectory was so predictable that it was not difficult to anticipate it was on a collision course.
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Journal issue; Softcover
20.6 x 27 cm | 156 pp.
Spanish / English
Projects cannot always be formulated beforehand. Sometimes they are conceptualized during their development. At other times, they are too radical to be announced. But most of the time, their formulation is made retrospectively simply because time gives a better perspective about what has been done. This is why it is only now that we can realize the ideas we have been trying to deploy for the last eight years. Given that ARQ has existed since 1980 - and we hope it will continue to exist for many more decades - we can look at what happened in that distant 2015 as a journey that deviated from the previous path, entering lesser-known territories and, perhaps for the same reason, more interesting to explore. Such a detour was imperative: the trajectory was so predictable that it was not difficult to anticipate it was on a collision course.
“As Mark Wigley reminds us in our interview for this issue, deconstructing does not mean destroying but dismantling to rethink the questions differently.”
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Fabrizio Gallanti
Softcover
12 x 17 cm | 94 pp.
Spanish / English
ISBN: 978-956-9571-99-2
“Not only the final outcomes of the actions of architectural design and engineering – that is, buildings and infrastructures – can generate dangers for those who inhabit and use them when not properly executed and maintained, but the act itself of construction has been since time immemorable a site of inequity and dangerous working conditions for workers who operate within it. Only in recent years architecture historians have started to consider the issue of the labor inscribed in the execution of building as a field of inquiry, not only to understand questions of form and usage, but also delineating possible lines of analysis, where economic and social relations of power are scrutinized.” [from Complicity and Contradictions]
“Why is concrete so ubiquitous in Brazil? (…) The answers to these questions reside in the overlap between architectural expression, processes of industrialization in Brazil and Latin America after 1945, the quest for a national aesthetic identity, and above all the role of political engagement in Brazilian design culture. Concrete in Brazil was political. It was a tool for direct political action, and a much-debated subject in cultural and political quarrels that crossed the body of artists, intellectuals, activists, designers, and politicians who operated in Brazil before and after the military coup of 1964.” [from Political Concrete]
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Softcover
12 x 17 cm | 94 pp.
Spanish / English
ISBN: 978-956-9571-99-2
“Not only the final outcomes of the actions of architectural design and engineering – that is, buildings and infrastructures – can generate dangers for those who inhabit and use them when not properly executed and maintained, but the act itself of construction has been since time immemorable a site of inequity and dangerous working conditions for workers who operate within it. Only in recent years architecture historians have started to consider the issue of the labor inscribed in the execution of building as a field of inquiry, not only to understand questions of form and usage, but also delineating possible lines of analysis, where economic and social relations of power are scrutinized.” [from Complicity and Contradictions]
“Why is concrete so ubiquitous in Brazil? (…) The answers to these questions reside in the overlap between architectural expression, processes of industrialization in Brazil and Latin America after 1945, the quest for a national aesthetic identity, and above all the role of political engagement in Brazilian design culture. Concrete in Brazil was political. It was a tool for direct political action, and a much-debated subject in cultural and political quarrels that crossed the body of artists, intellectuals, activists, designers, and politicians who operated in Brazil before and after the military coup of 1964.” [from Political Concrete]
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