El Lenguaje clásico de la arquitectura

Este libro plantea una visón completa del jardín del siglo XX y sugiere los caminos de relación entre la arquitectura y el jardín en el futuro, a partir de la experiencia de la cultura moderna. Esta visión general incluye análisis compositivos y espaciales de los jardines y de su relación con la arquitectura. De esta manera se ofrece, con carácter exhaustivo, una lectura crítica del desarrollo del jardín a lo largo de todo el siglo XX ( desde los proyectos del movimiento Arts & Crafts hasta las obras de Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, Peter Eisenman, Peter Walker, West 8, etcétera)...

The present edition publishes part of the research papers presented during the "Seminario de Investigación Arquitectura para la Producción" organized by the university of Michoacán between 2001 and 2002 that included the participation of national and international academics. The book gathers 23 collective and individual multidisciplinary works that examine from various perspectives the history of architecture in rural areas. Works are mainly focused in the colonial territory of the ex-bishopry of Michoacán divided in 4 main topics: Space, settlements, technology and environment and...

Profusely illustrated, this historical work focuses on the planning and construction of the Plaza Mayor in Madrid, Spain, during the second half of the 16th century—when Madrid went from being a mercantile town to the capital of the Hapsburg Empire. Including a detailed analysis of archived documents, architectural plans, and drawings, this study chronicles this monument's architectural and urban development, explains the symbolism associated with it, and reveals how it came to be a model for other European constructions. Profusamente ilustrada, esta obra histórica enfoca el planeamiento y ...

City and Architecture, Six generations who built up the modern Latin America comes from the architecture and urban planning history developed in the Latin-American area between 1885 and 1975. This is an organized work from a method called by the author generational, which covers 90 years (six generations). The names of those generations, that each one of them covers a period of 15 years, are gathered together in the chapters names of the book. The exposition of the context of each historic period is connected with the analysis of the architecture work, which offers a wide outlook of the...