Arquitectura moderna en Misiones, Argentina (1940-1965)

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.

Having graduated from Cornell University, Richard Meier established his own architectural firm in New York City in 1963, around a group known as the "Five Architects" of New York. This book includes 70 works and projects, chronologically ordered, from his first private houses around New York, to the most recent cultural centres, museums, corporate buildings and city planning for different cities in Europe, Asia and USA. This book, abundantly illustrated and documented, offers a chronological survey, from the first houses in the Hamptons to the most recent buildings including the Getty Center...

Este libro analiza las relaciones entre niveles de gobierno; entre entidades territoriales locales y entre el sector público y privado en el proceso de gestión de tres Sistemas Integrados de Transporte Masivo en áreas metropolitanas o conturbaciones de Colombia. Se realiza un análisis comparado de tres casos de estudio: Transmilenio (Bogotá-Soacha), Megabús (Área Metropolitana de Centro Occidente), y Transmetro (Área Metropolitana de Barranquilla). Se reseña los retos de la planificación y gestión del transporte (y en general de los grandes proyectos urbanos) en la escala...

Winner of the 2020 SAMLA Studies Book Award — Edited Collection Cities both near and far communicate in a variety of ways. Travel between, through, and among urban centers initiates contact, and cities themselves are sites of ever-changing cultural and historical encounters. Predictable and surprising challenges and opportunities arise when city borders are crossed, voices meet, and artistic traditions find their counterparts. Using the Latin word for “translation,” translatio, or “to carry across,” as a point of departure, Avenues of Translation explores how translation...