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Life and work of polemic architect and urbanist Meyer (b. Switzerland), one of the most important functionalists of the 1920's. The former director of the Bauhaus, he worked for the Post-Revolutionary Regimes in Mexico as the director of the Instituto del Urbanismo y Planification from 1942 through 1949, while also becoming the editor of the collective graphic workshop Taller de Grafica Popular (TGP) from 1947 to 1949. Many plates of his architectural designs and the structural diagrams Meyer used for the Bauhaus and in IUP in Mexico.

"This study goes beyond a formal description and esthetic analysis of house design in Mexico to offer an interpretation based on the complex network of economic, social, and cultural relations. Begins with an analysis of the indigenous home and lifestyle and continues into postrevolutionary, modern, and contemporary periods of historic transition, during which a new conception of urban space developed offering greater possibilities for individual expression. Contains many b/w plates of colonial city plans, 19th-century plans and photographs, and 20th-century photographs up to the...

En este texto, se deconstruye, a través del método de análisis descriptivo, una organización acabada en rasgos y atributos que, posteriormente en una hoja analítica, recomponen el sistema total. En este proceso se encuentran presentes las mentes de quienes hicieron de la idea una realización y la de quienes, desde ella, explican una organización consciente y/o inconsciente, a pesar de constituir una realidad empírica. Este libro continúa las investigaciones iniciadas hace cinco años. Se seleccionó una serie de referentes arquitectónicos de la ciudad de La Plata del período que...