Main entry:

Romero, Fernando, 1971-

Title & Author:

Translation / LAR ; Fernando Romero.

Publication:

Barcelona : Actar, 2005.

Description:

250 pages : color illustrations, color map, plans ; 16 cm

Notes:
Fernando Romero, Mexican architect; LAR, Laboratory of architecture founded by Fernando Romero.
The relentless utopian drive within any act of translation -- Conversation: Hans Ulbrich Obrist, Fernando Romero, Pedro Reyes -- Semisunken house -- Apartments for artists -- Suro House -- Cut & paste temple -- A house with revolving walls -- Children's room -- Orozco House -- Ixtapa House -- Translating Mexico City: new monumental modernism in the work of Fernando Romero / Aaron Betsky -- In-visible box -- A red box -- Reforma 222 -- The air is blue / el aire es azul -- Bridging two countries -- Hyperborder 2050 -- Inbursa Headquarters -- Beijing hyperbolic landmark -- Multi-docking -- Hoovering House -- Santa Fe tower -- House in Croatia -- SPAC (Seoul Performing Arts Center) -- Holocaust Museum -- Cantilever house -- Retreat residence -- Amorphous toy -- Migration museum -- A shelter in the mountains -- Private museum -- Minaret tower -- A tea house in a bridge -- Villa S -- House in Portugal -- Snake's skin -- Veracruz -- Shopping + housing -- Master plan on Quito's former airport grounds -- Glass box bank -- Madrid courthouse -- The border museum -- Library-garden -- Tabasco Convention Center -- Tabasco tower -- Nature's pure gift in the global city / Yuko Hasegawa -- Typologies -- Geometry -- Scale -- People involved in design -- Chronology -- Identity -- Location -- Team.

Summary:

The Mexican architect F Romero founded LCM in 1999 and later, in 2005, LAR, an office that conceives of architecture as a process of translating the needs of today's society. This book seeks to generate unprecedented spaces, exploring new structures and geometries, developing the use of new materials and applying contemporary construction methods. Fernando Romero graduated from architecture school in Mexico City in 1995, and then worked with Enric Miralles, Jean Nouvel and Rem Koolhaas before setting up his own firm in 1999, called Laboratorio de la Ciudad de Mexico. LCM soon became influential, as one of few offices--if not the only one--carrying out experimental projects in Mexico City's economically vulnerable environment. In 2005, Romero founded the Laboratory of Architecture, LAR. Translation divides LCM and LAR's projects into three categories. "Fluid Bodies" are long-lasting private projects, addressing specific situations with high-tech resources. The Modern Wetdream project from 2001, a villa with a view of the Pacific Ocean, is a perfect illustration of this. "Revised Boxes" are public buildings whose technology is based on industrial products. For example, at the Inbursa bank on Paseo de la Reforma, one of the most prestigious avenues in Mexico City, Romero used laminated glass which looks either opaque or transparent depending on where one stands. "Boxes," the third category of projects, create cheap, low-tech architecture and rapidly applicable designs from commercial wholesale products, the better to attain LAR's goal of addressing contemporary society via a process of architectural translation.

ISBN:

8495951924
9788495951922

Subject:

Romero, Fernando, 1971-
LAR (Firm)
LAR (Firme)
Architecture Mexico 20th century.
Architecture Mexico 21st century.
Architects Mexico.
Architectural firms Mexico.
Architecture Mexique 20e siècle.
Architecture Mexique 21e siècle.
Architectes Mexique.
Agences d'architecture Mexique.
Architects.
Architectural firms.
Architecture.
Mexico.

Added entries:

LAR (Firm)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 252554
Call No.: BIB 182253
Status: Available