Arquitectura moderna en Misiones, Argentina (1940-1965)

Para quienes estamos comprometidos con el desarrollo de nuevas estrategias de conocimiento y actuación dentro del planeamiento ambiental, la presente obra de Alberto Magnaghi puede ser considerada un auténtico hito dentro del proceso de evolución de esta disciplina. Esta apreciación no es una presunción apresurada, sino que se basa en la constatación de que estamos ante un cambio epistémico fundamental dentro del proceso de evolución de la disciplina tras superar los reduccionismos propios de las visiones funcionalistas y biocéntricas sobre el entorno. Nos encontramos ahora frente a...

The Catalog Architecture of the Modern Movement of Peru (CAMMP) is the outcome of the investigation of the same name the University of Lima developed between 2013 and 2015. It is the first initiative that set out to inventory and document the most important buildings of the national production in the modern period. Thus, collects and systematizes information and original documents of architecture - drawings, descriptions, photographs, perspectives - found in various publications of the time and files of the authors themselves.--

The present edition graphically documents the design, construction and installationof the mega main public library Biblioteca de México "José Vasconcelos" locatedin Mexico City. In 2001 a transformation project of the Biblioteca de México proposal had three main actions: the restoration of the La Ciudadela building, the construction of a more modern and larger building and the establishment of an interchange network between the public libraries in México, where the new library was to be the central node of a national network. The new library that includes surrounding botanical garden was...

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.