Casas internacional 175: Luciano Kruk

Hoy concebimos y realizamos obras, en la mayoría de los casos, sin conocer a quienes serán sus habitantes. A su vez, debemos contemplar los intereses económicos del desarrollador, que gravitan fuertemente en la toma de decisiones proyectuales. Con estas consideraciones, nos sentamos a trabajar. Tenemos que distanciarnos de nuestros deseos y preferencias e imaginarnos al destinatario de la vivienda, para ofrecerle ideas materializadas ajustadas a pautas fundamentales de habitabilidad, acceso, aislación, orientación, ventilación natural, entre otras. Todas ellas orientadas hacia el...

Written by three architectural journalists, this book offers an a-to-z look at 100 of the world’s best architects, from the Madrid-based team Abalos & Herreros to Peter Zumthor, one of the most important figures on the Swiss architectural scene. The two-page spreads combine analytical text with a selection of stunning photos showing the architects’ most famous works, while providing an overview of the varied nature of architecture today. Such luminaries as Frank Gehry, Michael Graves, Maya Lin, and Richard Meier, are discusssed along with the accomplishments of Japanese architects Kenzo...

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...

In this work, which is based on heritage architecture and cultural studies, the relationship between communities and habitat is studied to understand their way of conceiving and inhabiting the urban territory. The author participation in the Plan Especial de Manejo y Protección (PEMP) of the set of architectural assets of Republican architecture of Quibdó led her to question the handling of historical centers containing declared architectural assets in the country. The stories made invisible or denied by hegemonic heritage perspectives "were the route charted within the framework of the PhD ...

SINOPSIS En los Estados de México, Morelos, Guerrero, Puebla y Oaxaca; y en la República de El Salvador, en las fiestas patronales de los pueblos nahuas, amuzgos, mixtecos, y mestizos, se representan danzas comedias de viejitos chistosos cazando a una fiera. En el libro se defiende la hipótesis de que todas las danzas comedias del jaguar y los viejitos cómicos son variantes con distinto nombre. Dan alegría a las fiestas patronales de los pueblos en su mayoría de origen nahua. Por orden de frecuencia, las danzas comedias del tigre (jaguar) más abundantes son: Tecuanes, tlacololeros,...