Publications
Books by Luis Diego Barahona
Two books on the work of LDB Arquitectura and on a way of intervening in the city through small projects. Both are published by Líneas, the publishing house Luis Diego Barahona founded in 2002 and directs.
2023 · Foreword by Josep Maria Montaner
Luis Diego Barahona Arquitectura. Obras y proyectos
The book (its title means Works and Projects) brings together 59 works and projects that Luis Diego Barahona carried out with his teams between 2001 and 2022. They are arranged in eleven building types, from offices and retail to institutional buildings, human development centers, housing, urban ensembles, urban renewal plans, parks, squares and mobility.
Most of the works are in Costa Rica. It also includes competition entries for Chile, Argentina, Mali and Senegal. Among them are the Tirrases Human Development Center, the Barrio Escalante Renewal Plan with the La Luz Gastronomic Promenade, the intervention at the Atlantic Railway Station in Turrialba and the municipal buildings of Santa Ana and Pococí.
“What stands out most in the architectural work of Luis Diego Barahona is that it is understood as a process”
Josep Maria Montaner, from the foreword
- Year
- 2023
- Foreword
- Josep Maria Montaner
- Contents
- 59 works in 11 building types
- Pages
- 264
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Líneas
- ISBN
- 978-9968-9993-5-9
- Language
- Spanish
2014 · Foreword by Zaida Muxí
Sistemas de Acupunturas Urbanas
An urban acupuncture is a small, precise intervention in public space. This book (its title means Systems of Urban Acupunctures) explains how several of them, conceived together, can improve an entire neighborhood with limited resources and in stages.
It gathers the urban renewal plans and public spaces the office designed in those years in San José, such as the plans for Barrio Los Yoses and Barrio Escalante. It is a compact illustrated edition and part of the Colección Líneas.
- Year
- 2014
- Foreword
- Zaida Muxí
- Pages
- 136, illustrated
- Format
- 17 × 21 cm
- Publisher
- Líneas
- ISBN
- 978-9968-9993-4-2
Free digital edition, 139 pages, 24 MB. Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23409005. Barahona, L. D. (2014). Sistemas de Acupunturas Urbanas. Editorial Líneas.
Inside the books
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Contents, first part1 of 8
Contents, pages 6 and 71 of 6
A short tour through the book.
If you would like to read it at your own pace, download the chapter on the Evertec building. It covers pages 20 to 25, with photos, plans and text.
Texts, works and press
Luis Diego’s columns on the city, public space and housing are in Texts. Several works from the books, such as Evertec and AutoStar, have their own page with photos in the project archive.