Construcciones Patentes

A selection of the most prominent works of architecture selected by El Croquis with an introduction by Juan Antonio Cortés and an essay by William Curtis. Among the works are the Sendai Mediatheque by Toyo Ito, the Yokohama International Port Terminal by Foreign Office Architects, the Netherlands Embassy in Berlin by OMA-Rem Koolhaas, the Braga Municipal Stadium by Eduardo Souto de Moura, the Prada Aoyama Epicenter by Herzog & De Meuron, the Scottish Parliament building by EMBT, the Monastery of Our Lady of Novy Dvur by John Pawson, the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art expansion by Steven Holl,...

Historical-documental biography of architect-engineer Antonio Arróniz Topete (b. Jalisco 1858-1926), "the engineer of red bricks". The book documents his life and work, considered to be of one of the most extensive and complete elaborated at the end of the Porfirio Diaz regime and the first decades of the 20th century in the State of Jalisco. The book studies his architectural legacy, such as the Ex Seminario Mayor de Guadalajara, transformed into the XV Zona Militar and now the Secretaría de Cultura of Jalisco, the Escuela de Artes y Oficios del Espíritu Santo (demolished in 1953), the...

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 /...