Aprendizaje, composición y emplazamiento en el proyecto de arquitectura

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style and accomplishments written by a leading architecture critic. Then, approximately twenty noteworthy works and projects are discussed by the architect and presented in detail with site plans, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.

El proyecto de arquitectura es -junto con el montor en bicicleta y algunas funciones basicas de los seres organicos- una de las pocas competencias del ser humano que, al parecer, no es necesario aprender. A juzgar por como suele plantearse su ensenanza, se llega a la conclusion de que se aprende a proyectar directamente con la practica. Un programa, un solar y los consejos de un profesor se consideran suficientes para adiestrarse en la concepcion de la arquitectura. Probablemente, la identificacion de la modernidad con la invencion favorecio una patologia tan extendida: asi, se fue poblando...

Inventory of architectural patrimony and popular culture in the state of Veracruz, Mexico. The first part is devoted to architecture and monuments from Pre-Columbian , colonial, 19th and 20th century, with emphasis on Pre-Columbian cultures. Includes mural art and some information on archival holdings. The second half is devoted to folkart, crafts, local culinary history, folklore, fiestas at the village, town, city and state levels.

A study of Bogota viewed as a museum (outside of the traditional museum). This work offers a critical look at modern city through a series of tours through downtown Bogotá, specifically on Seventh Avenue between Calles 11 and 16 that was transformed from Bogotazo through an urban renewal project. It turned the area into a paradigm of what should be a modern Bogotá. The book discusses the aesthetic character of its architecture, the connections between traditional museums, and reaffirmed the principles of order and functionality of the modern movement and led to rules that have sought...