Diccionario urbano

"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...

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...

Esta monografia presenta la primera recopilacion de su variado trabajo que incluye desde reformas de casas unifamiliares a naves industriales asi como diseno de mobiliario urbano. La eleccion de los materiales, los sistemas constructivos y la tecnologia utilizada construyen en cada una de sus obras una deliberada e intencionada eleccion que a menudo se convierte en el principal punto de partida del proyecto.

Contribución al conocimiento de las controversias que se crearon en torno a la cultura urbanística de los años ochenta del siglo pasado. Pretende esbozar, de una manera sintética y ordenada, las reflexiones teóricas y las ideas que se forjaron en aquella época, donde el urbanismo se convirtió en símbolo de la política municipal.