Construcciones Patentes

Este libro destaca el rol de los arquitectos que, agrupados en asociación gremial, fueron capaces de impulsar, en un periodo de 35 años (1907-1942), cinco grandes iniciativas: la creación del Colegio de Arquitectos, el apoyo a la formación de Facultades de Arquitectura, la participación en los Congresos Panamericanos de Arquitectos, la aprobación de reglamentos de edificación y la publicación de revistas.

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...

The book examines the long, productive and stormy relationship architect Le Corbusier had with Argentina and the series of events in consequence. His Argentinean disciples Jorge Ferrari Hardoy, Juan Kurchan and Antonio Bonet, although influenced by the master architect had their own architectonic and urban ideas. The book examines the "Austral Net" created towards the productive, plural and complex relationship of these 4 personages where the central figure is the famed Swiss architect. The book is chronologically organized and includes a selection of the most important architecture...

Volumen II: Cascarones delgados en de Hormigón Armado en el Ecuador / Mauricio Luzuriaga, Ana María Carrión y Álvaro Valladares -- La Central Hidroeléctrica de El Chorro y el Caminito del Rey / Luis Machuca Casares, Ángeles Alonso Nuñez -- Petrificación de la Riqueza. La construcción medieval en Las Merindades de Burgos / Rocío, Maira-Vidal -- La bóveda encamonada de la capilla de la encarnación de la Iglesia de los Terceros de Sevilla / Carlos Martín Jiménez y Julián García Muñoz -- Edificación decimonónica con bloques de conchuela en la Ex-Aduana de Frontera, Tabasco /...