The Oneil Ford Duograph Series

"Two masterpieces of architecture in Chile are presented in this first volume of the O'Neil Ford Duograph series: a house facing the Pacific Ocean on the spectacular Chilean coast and the new crypt for the Cathedral of Santiago de Chile - one a house for the living and one for the dead, both marking the cycle of life."--BOOK JACKET.

Two residential buildings by these Brazilian architects are studied in depth in this volume. Invisible from the street, Angelo Bucci's house reveals itself in sequences until reaching the highest point and a 360-degree view. Carla Jua aba's vacation house in a remote, virgin forest is a small building of excetional beauty and elegence.

Solano Benítez ́audacious brick structures are hand crafted, rough, minimal and of strikingly beautiful elegance like the best engineering structures at all times. The featured Abu & Font house earned him the prestigious Swiss BSI Architectural Award in 2008. Like pioneers he and his team boldly conquer new fields of construction even if using familiar and traditional products. Javier Corvalán ́s fine sense of observation results in incredibly stimulating and flexible spaces - be it a private house, a cultural center, a library, or his own house and office. The intentional informality of the plan is consequently and successfully transformed into experimental plastic configurations. A subversive dismissal of traditional definitions of an object not to mention a building, its meaning and its technical representation is key to the chosen tectonic order which more than once relies on transformations of ready-mades or trivial construction methods. With this fifth OŃeil Ford Duograph, The Center for American Architecture and Design together with the OŃeil Ford Chair in Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin are publishing another set of buildings by two architects from one country in South America.

With orthodox modernism's stricture on the use of pitched roofs and the subsequent loss of knowledge regarding the plastic-sculptural potential of a building, or more generally.

Nature is in many different ways a pool for the productive human being, but also a counterpoint to his/her own work. This book offers a richly illustrated overview of the history of nature in architecture, civil engineering and art.