Casa Mexicana

This is not another book on estates and confiscations. The author offers us a precise radiography of the state of the Carthusian Monastery in its magnificent final decades, of the ravages it suffered from 1808 onwards and its subsequent nationalisation, auction and sale process. A work mostly based on unpublished sources.

A biographic study of the life and work of English-born Luis Long, who arrived in Mexico in 1873 and lived in León until his death in 1927, recognized as one of the most important architects of his era.

Este libro está dirigido a los estudiantes de la asignatura Estructuras Metálicas, para las titulaciones de Ingeniero de Caminos, Canales y Puertos e Ingeniero Civil, de las Escuelas Politécnicas Superiores. La obra constituye un manual básico para el conocimiento teórico de las estructuras metálicas, su cálculo y dimensionamiento. La mayor novedad de esta publicación es la adaptación a la nueva Instrucción de Acero Estructural (EAE), aprobada por Real Decreto 751 de 27 de mayo de 2011, que constituye la norma de obligado cumplimiento para todas las estructuras y elementos de acero...

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...