BERNARDO GÓMEZ-PIMIENTA

BGP Arquitectura 2011

Even among Mexico’s brilliant contemporary architects, Bernardo Gómez-Pimienta stands out. This comprehensive volume, overflowing with brilliant photography, showcases more than a decade of work of his firm, BGP Arquitectura. With an impressive list of international awards (including the first Mies van der Rohe award for Latin America and being named honorary fellow of the American Institute of Architects), Gomez-Pimienta’s work combines the clean lines and spatial sense of modernism with a particular sensitivity to integrating landmark designs, like the new Televisa Chapultepec, into dense urban textures like Mexico City. His design for Hotel Habita (in Mexico City’s super-upscale Polanco district) turned a tired older building into the Latin American Building of the Year. An inspiring body of work, beautifully presented.

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iA #5

Robotics in Architecture

Kas Oosterhuis and Henriëtte Bier

The fifth issue of this ever-engrossing bookazine series on Interactive Architecture, from researchers, students and guest lecturers from Hyperbody at the Delft University of Technology and other invited contributors. The topic here is understanding buildings from a life-cycle perspective with respect to their economic and ecological impact on society at large. This development requires practical applications for interactive, robotic architecture, leading to the emergence of active and pro-active building components, which act and interact in ever-changing environments. iA#5, a mix of papers, educational reports, workshops, dialogs and other information, focuses on reconfigurable architecture that incorporates sensing-actuating mechanisms that enable buildings to interact with their users and surroundings.

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