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The Buttons are one of the most surprising advertising media. Besides of their huge creative possibilities, they are cheap enough to be used by Politics associations, big companies and ordinary people. "Buttons, Stories and Transitions" shows the Spanish recent history through more than a hundred buttons owned by Juan Mirat from Publichap, one of the pioneers in the button business in Spain.

This book accompanies an exhibition which focuses on the twenty years Miquel Barceló has spent frequenting Mali. The work he has produced there, mainly on paper, represents a very distinctive body of work. As well as the works on paper, the current exhibition includes canvases, sketchbooks, sculptures and ceramics. The experience of the landscape and the harshness of the climate there have no doubt influenced his work especially in the series that has become known as his "white paintings".

Writers, photographers and artists reveal everyday life in contemporary Iran.

Más allá de los metros cuadrados disponibles y del estilo arquitectónico elegido, la casa, como una extensión de nuestro cuerpo hacia el mundo, es y debe ser un espejo de nuestros hábitos y de nuestras preferencias. Cada espacio que aqui se presenta, sean pequeños refugios de fin de semana o grandes casas unifamiliares, alcanza cierta grandeza con la cual el usuario puede identificarse. El libro se convierte asi, en un gran muestrario de las multiples posibilidades de diseño y construccion de residencias. Los proyectos se han agrupado en tres capitulos relativos a su ubicacion (Casas en la ciudad, casas en el campo y casas en el limite). Un cuarto capitulo recoge viviendas particularmente singulares, en las que hay un marcado interes por la experimentacion, la busqueda de soluciones a programas complejos o nuevas combinaciones de materiales y formas. Hay que aclarar que en terminos generales se han seleccionado ideas de casas y no casas ideales, porque el hogar que todos deseamos solo existe en nuestra imaginacion, de suerte que cada una de las viviendas aqui incluidas tiene el gran logro de remitir a la utopia del habitar perfecto.

Renzo Piano is an architect whose work seems increasingly relevant to our times. Winner of the Pritzker Prize in 1998, Piano is certainly one of the most interesting and acclaimed contemporary architects. Since his first building, the Centre Pompidou in Paris produced in collaboration with architect Sir Richard Rogers, he has realised a great number of attractive buildings all over the world, always creating new languages that combine a deep concern of the topography of the site, a clear comprehension of the brief and an amazing interest in the experimentation of new technologies. In Volume Five, Peter Buchanan shows, as he has in the previous four volumes, that Piano follows no fashions of form or theory, nor is he limited to a personal idiom. Instead he concerns himself with the specifics and potential of a particular situation and moment, meeting the challenges of the programme, often pushing technology beyond its present limits, and always responding sensitively to the urban fabric of the building's site. The first four volumes of the Complete Works have traced Piano's career from his early collaborations with Rogers and Peter Rice, and the formation of the Building Workshop in 1981, to the completion of Kansai Airport in 1995. This fifth volume will include Piano's latest buildings, which illustrate the continuing complexity of his work. Chief amongst these are the Nasher Collection in Dallas, the Woodruff Arts Centre Expansion in Atlanta, USA, Maison Hermes in Tokyo, Japan, and the Aurora Place Office and Apartment Towers in Sydney, Australia. As before, the book will also include 'work in progress', to demonstrate the full diversity of the Building Workshop's activities. This includes the London Bridge Tower, UK.

José Luis de Vicente / Irma VilàMarta de MenezesRamón GuardansDiane GiomalaSibylle Hauert / Daniel ReichmuthPaulo PereiraHerwig TurkUlla Taipale (Cápsula)Geert LovinkAbraham San PedroJonah LehrerAnde