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Versión íntegra de los autores de la entrevista publicada en el suplemento Babelia de El País, bajo el título Vivimos un urbanismo loco (19/12/2009)...

In a conversation which took place with Juan María Songel Frei Otto regrets that the Olympic stadium roof could not be lighter, owing to the necessity to adapt it to a form previously designed by the winner of the competition, the architect Günter Benisch...

The renovation of this block, in the heart of Munich, is a work of composing in-fills and voids in which that already existing is submitted to the new order, based on the use of the entire ground floor as retail space...

The headquarters of the collection is a small building in the garden of the private house of the owner, Ingvild Goetz, who wanted a space where she could temporarily exhibit some works...

Located in the Museum district of Munich, the new Brandhorst Museum is a rectangular box three-storeys high, including the basement, which houses a private contemporary art collection...

Four years after its completion, the climbing vine has not managed to get past the second storey and the East and West facades suffer the consequences...

The new city of Riem forms part of Munich's strategy for growth, which is based on three concepts: urban, compact and green. It lies on the the land of the former airport and tries to achieve a liveable environment based on three basic ingredients...

The residential complex is composed of four buildings between Genterstrasse, Peter-Paul Althausstrasse and Osterwaldstrasse. Otto Steidle (1943-2004) finished the first of these, in Genterstrasse, in 1972, where his studio is located...

Courtillières is an example of a failure in modern urban planning. The neighbourhood, designed by Émile Aillaud towards the end of the 1950s, is currently undergoing different urban regeneration plans...

This last double issue from the Hybrids Series, titled HYBRIDS III. Residential Mixed-Use Buildings, is centred on residential use as a support for actions involving hybrids...

In the search for models capable of economising resources, Hybrid Buildings, especially those with residential uses, are chance samples that include the gene of mixed-use development in its code...

Hybrids III supports the inclusion of housing in mixed developments, that guarantees continuous functional intensity and tends to be the driving force of financing civic buildings...

This last double issue from the Hybrids Series is centred on residential use as a support for actions involving hybrids. Whereas issues I and II devote their pages, respectively, to high rise and horizontal hybrids, Hybrids III supports the inclusion of housing in mixed developments, that ...