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 ...

The expert contributors to this lavishly illustrated volume, devoted entirely to Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion of 1929, address here for the first time the forgotten contexts of the Pavilion's genesis. Habitually thought of as an abstract, unpolluted, and splendidly isolated building--a precursor of Mies's American period--the Pavilion is revealed here as a thoroughly European work, perhaps less pristine but more authentic. Mies and Lilly Reich were commissioned to design not only the Pavilion but also more than one hundred thousand square feet of German stands spread throughout the...

"Critical study and research of the life and architecture of Urzúa (b. Mexico) who along architects Luis Barragán and Ignacio Díaz Morales started the localartistic movement known as "regionalismo" in Guadalajara. The edition is divided in 3 sections: his life, closely related to his architecture, an illustrated catalogue of his life production and acollection of facsimile copies of documents from his personal archives"--Provided by vendor.

El Movimiento Moderno, nacido a principios del siglo XX y liderado por Le Corbus ier, propugna un mayor racionalismo y funcionalismo en la arquitectura. Este cua rto volumen de la colección Documentos de arquitectura moderna en América Latina se centra en la vivienda social construida entre 1950 y 1965 en Argentina, Bras il, Chile y México bajo las directrices de esta escuela. Fruto del proyecto del Grupo de Investigación FORM, que dirige Teresa Rovira, el libro recoge varias re flexiones sobre el objeto de estudio y una muestra representativa de proyectos.

Trata este libro de despertar, edificándolo sobre conceptos fundamentales, el concepto técnico de espacio y de sacar de él todos sus múltiples encantos. Da al dibujante técnico, o delineante, una visión ordenada sobre todo lo que debe saber para enfrentarse con los tribunales de examen o de oposiciones y para enfrentarse sobre todo con la vida y con la práctica de su profesión.