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Life and work of polemic architect and urbanist Meyer (b. Switzerland), one of the most important functionalists of the 1920's. The former director of the Bauhaus, he worked for the Post-Revolutionary Regimes in Mexico as the director of the Instituto del Urbanismo y Planification from 1942 through 1949, while also becoming the editor of the collective graphic workshop Taller de Grafica Popular (TGP) from 1947 to 1949. Many plates of his architectural designs and the structural diagrams Meyer used for the Bauhaus and in IUP in Mexico.

Estos analisis sobre el lenguaje de la arquitectura se dirigen "a todos aquellos que aprecian lo suficiente la arquitectura para empezar a reflexionar sobre ella en lugar de limitarse a su contemplacion."

The book is an historic and graphical account of the patios of "vecindad" (neighbourhood) in the port city of Veracruz, in a period that goes from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century. The foreword of this edition, states that the first record of a patio of a "vecindad" dates back to 1791, highlighting that those patios have seen the early years of musician and singer "Toña la Negra" and were the place of origin of the famous "picadas" from Veracruz, one of the most popular snacks of the jarocha traditional cuisine.

El área metropolitana de La Habana se confunde con la unidad administrativa de la provincia Ciudad de La Habana (con 15 municipios), configurando un complejo mosaico en la distribución territorial de la población y de los usos del suelo. Se trata de la ciudad más poblada en la región del Caribe, centro político, cultural y económico de Cuba, destino turístico emergente y foco político de referencia mundial. Se propone una visión amplia y sinóptica de las complejas relaciones espaciales establecidas en el solar de La Habana por sus habitantes y visitantes a lo largo de la Historia....