El color de tu casa

With numerous maps, photographs and illustrations, this volume presents a detailed and intelligent analysis of the city.

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...

A major critical study by noted architect and researcher Ramón Gutiérrez on the different phases of the history and evolution of the architectural patrimony of Paraguay spanning from primitive and colonial times to present days. The book includes a large collection of period photographs and color reproductions of the watercolors of the city of Asuncion done between 1855 and 1856 by French traveler Francisco Vincent of colonial and old Asuncion that graphically document how the original urban profile of Asunción has paid the tribute of the urban development and progress sacrificing its most ...

ÍNDICE: ARQUITECTURA ILUSTRADA. - La arquitectura ilustrada. - La Academía de Bellas Artes y la gestación del neoclasicismo. - La incorporación de España al debate arquitectónico. FRANCISCO SABATINI. - Arquitectura pulchra. - Sabatini Ilustrado. EL EDIFICIO DE LA REAL FÁBRICA DE ESPADAS DE TOLEDO. - El territorio. - La Real Fábrica de espadas de Carlos III. - El edificio a lo largo del siglo XIX. - La Fábrica en el siglo XX. EL PROYECTO DE REHABILITACIÓN - Antecedentes. - Criterios de rehabilitación. - La rehabilitación de la capilla. - Estado de conservación. - Tratamientos...