CONOCIMIENTO DEL TERRITORIO Y CARTOGRAFIA URBANA

The Catalog Architecture of the Modern Movement of Peru (CAMMP) is the outcome of the investigation of the same name the University of Lima developed between 2013 and 2015. It is the first initiative that set out to inventory and document the most important buildings of the national production in the modern period. Thus, collects and systematizes information and original documents of architecture - drawings, descriptions, photographs, perspectives - found in various publications of the time and files of the authors themselves.--

"This study goes beyond a formal description and esthetic analysis of house design in Mexico to offer an interpretation based on the complex network of economic, social, and cultural relations. Begins with an analysis of the indigenous home and lifestyle and continues into postrevolutionary, modern, and contemporary periods of historic transition, during which a new conception of urban space developed offering greater possibilities for individual expression. Contains many b/w plates of colonial city plans, 19th-century plans and photographs, and 20th-century photographs up to the...

Eduardo de Almeida es un nuevo libro de la colección Materiales de Arquitectura. Documentos, con la que quiero rendir un homenaje personal a unos amigos que son, además, excelentes arquitectos. Dicho homenaje se centra en el ámbito de lo visual, a partir de la dimensión critica de la mirada: se trata, en definitiva, de proponer una visita conjunta a las obras del autor que me han parecido de mayor interés, entre las que he podido visitar. Con este modo de proceder sigo fiel a mi ya antigua reivindicación de la mirada como instancia constructiva y a la visualidad como dimensión esencial ...

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...