Biblioteca Vasconcelos =
Subtitle: Vasconcelos Library
By: [cuidado de la edición, Miquel Adrià, Isabel Garcés ; textos, Miquel Adrià ... [et al.] ; fotografías, Tomás Casademunt, Luis Gordoa ; traducción, GregoryDechant].
Contributors: Adrià, Miquel.; Garcés, Isabel.; Casademunt, Tomás, 1967-; Gordoa, Luis.; Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (Mexico)
Publisher: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes; Editorial RM; Conaculta; RM VERLAG; Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Dirección General de Publicaciones
Published: 2006
Place of publication: México, D.F
Language: spa
Number of pages: 145
ISBN-13: 9789703511907
Subjects: Biblioteca Vasconcelos -- History.; Biblioteca Vasconcelos -- Pictorial works.; Public libraries -- Mexico -- Mexico City.; Library architecture -- Mexico.
Description: The present edition graphically documents the design, construction and installationof the mega main public library Biblioteca de México "José Vasconcelos" locatedin Mexico City. In 2001 a transformation project of the Biblioteca de México proposal had three main actions: the restoration of the La Ciudadela building, the construction of a more modern and larger building and the establishment of an interchange network between the public libraries in México, where the new library was to be the central node of a national network. The new library that includes surrounding botanical garden was a project by architect Alberto Kalach and was constructed adjacent to the Buenavista train station in the historical downtown area. A final section follows the artistic and technical process of artist Gabriel Orozco and his work team for the construction of the project Mátrix Móvil (Mobile Matrix), a suspended installation of graphite painting on a salvaged whale skeleton done in 2006 that hangs in the central area of the library.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Spanish and English in parallel columns .
Table of contents: title: La casa de todos = The house of one and all / Felipe Garrido; title: Concurso =Competition; title: Proceso ejecutivo = Executive design; title: Proceso constructivo = Constructionprocess; title: El arca y el jardín = The ark and the garden / Miquel Adrià; title: Recorrido fotográfico = Photographic tour / Tomás Casademunt, Luis Gordoa; title: Epica de mátrix móvil = The epic of mátrix móvil / Marco Barrera Bassols; title: M&B = M&B / Pablo Soler Frost.