El color de tu casa

"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...

SINOPSIS En los Estados de México, Morelos, Guerrero, Puebla y Oaxaca; y en la República de El Salvador, en las fiestas patronales de los pueblos nahuas, amuzgos, mixtecos, y mestizos, se representan danzas comedias de viejitos chistosos cazando a una fiera. En el libro se defiende la hipótesis de que todas las danzas comedias del jaguar y los viejitos cómicos son variantes con distinto nombre. Dan alegría a las fiestas patronales de los pueblos en su mayoría de origen nahua. Por orden de frecuencia, las danzas comedias del tigre (jaguar) más abundantes son: Tecuanes, tlacololeros,...

A Compilation of 30 Innovative Architectonic Inventions in Catalonia. The architecture produced in Catalonia has often been in the vanguard of Europe, especially since Barcelona hosted the 1992 Olympics. This book is an exciting overview of innovative spaces and techniques made in Catalonia, presenting a cross section of 'products' as well as the buildings and environments for which they were conceived. The products solve specific program requirements, new social demands, environmental needs, budget limitations and design aspirations to improve on the status quo. They are proving grounds of...

Este título muestra una selección de establecimientos que ofrecen una atención personal, confort material y espiritual. Hoteles excepcionales. Muestra su diseño, arquitectura, mobiliario y su lay out publicitario. Con planos de ubicación para encontrarnos con ellos.