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Desde las últimas décadas del siglo pasado son cada vez más numerosas las investigaciones desde la perspectiva artística que se han ocupado del siglo XIX en un intento de comprender y analizar sus realizaciones con mayor objetividad o, al menos, sin los prejuicios con que inicialmente el siglo XX juzgó lo decimonónico, al proyectar sobre esa época sus propios ideales y la mirada de las sucesivas vanguardias. Este hecho ha propiciado también un mayor interés por la arquitectura y el urbanismo de esa centuria. Al margen del aprecio estético que puedan suscitarnos hoy en día sus...

The book is an historic and graphical account of the patios of "vecindad" (neighbourhood) in the port city of Veracruz, in a period that goes from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century. The foreword of this edition, states that the first record of a patio of a "vecindad" dates back to 1791, highlighting that those patios have seen the early years of musician and singer "Toña la Negra" and were the place of origin of the famous "picadas" from Veracruz, one of the most popular snacks of the jarocha traditional cuisine.

The life and architecture of Cetto, a brilliant architect intellectually formed around the German expressionist movement and who, when arriving in Mexico "revalues" the traditional materials and proceedings of the Mexican culture integrating them gradually into his architecture. Part of a monographic series on 20th century modern architects.

The work of the Colombian architect Harold Martínez Espinal, shows a way to purposeful way of thinking the architecture in the suburbs. This book makes a journey from his first works in the 1960's and 1970's, determined by the influence of modern architecture, until the beginning of the second millennium where his thought continues.