Casa Mexicana

En este libro se abordan tres aspectos que están presentes en el proceso de formación y ejercicio profesional de los arquitectos: el aprendizaje, la composición y el emplazamiento. En el primer apartado se presentan algunas consideraciones pedagógicas y didácticas, así como también aspectos asociados al análisis y a la estrategia de aprendizaje. El segundo apartado pone en diálogo dos aproximaciones a la composición arquitectónica; la primera indaga por la analogía como estrategia de aprendizaje y la segunda por la tipología, como una sintaxis entre relaciones formales y...

Who ever said you can't have it all? This highly useful and decorative guide profiles lodgings around the world where you can enjoy the hippest of hospitality without breaking the bank. Including affordable hotels in locales as varied as Amsterdam and Cape Town, this guide makes sure your vacation fantasies can become reality.

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 A work mostly based on unpublished sources.

The book is the resulting papers from the Seminars of Latin American Architecture (SAL) organized by CEDODAL as an example of academic cooperation between Latin American architects who share their concern for the conservation of the region's architectural patrimony. This edition comprises case studies and historical, economic, social and architectural analysis of the farms and landowners of the haciendas and estancias from 7 countries of Latin America: Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, México, Perú and Puerto Rico.