Arquitectura y urbanismo en Iberoamérica

A major critical study by noted architect and researcher Ramón Gutiérrez on the different phases of the history and evolution of the architectural patrimony of Paraguay spanning from primitive and colonial times to present days. The book includes a large collection of period photographs and color reproductions of the watercolors of the city of Asuncion done between 1855 and 1856 by French traveler Francisco Vincent of colonial and old Asuncion that graphically document how the original urban profile of Asunción has paid the tribute of the urban development and progress sacrificing its most ...

Las obras que forman parte de Arquitectura Moderna en Misiones (1953-1964) constituyen un aporte significativo desde varios puntos de vista. Desde lo histórico, son un resultado directo de la Provincialización en 1953; desde lo territorial-urbano, forman parte de un operativo integral único en el contexto nacional; desde lo arquitectónico, constituyen buenos ejemplos de adaptación a las particularidades del sitio, como así también por el prestigio de sus autores (Clorindo Testa, Mario Soto, Raúl Rivarola). Es necesaria la incorporación del conjunto de obras al acervo patrimonial de...

"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...

Historical-documental biography of architect-engineer Antonio Arróniz Topete (b. Jalisco 1858-1926), "the engineer of red bricks". The book documents his life and work, considered to be of one of the most extensive and complete elaborated at the end of the Porfirio Diaz regime and the first decades of the 20th century in the State of Jalisco. The book studies his architectural legacy, such as the Ex Seminario Mayor de Guadalajara, transformed into the XV Zona Militar and now the Secretaría de Cultura of Jalisco, the Escuela de Artes y Oficios del Espíritu Santo (demolished in 1953), the...

Es un libro sobre la obra de Antonio Gaudí con datos inéditos de algunos de sus edificios y su análisis según los cinco principios clave del construir arquitectónico, los cuales se sintetizan en la conveniencia estética, presidida en la obra de Gaudí por la idea de continuidad determinante de su radical originalidad arquitectónica.