El Lenguaje clásico de la arquitectura

Louis I. Kahn mantuvo unas charlas con los estudiantes de la Rice School of Architecture en la primavera de 1968. Un ano mas tarde, estas conversaciones se reunieron en un libro que, por primera vez, se presenta al lector de lengua castellana. El texto "Luz blanca, sombra negra" introduce su pensamiento y la conversacion con los estudiantes, "El diseno conduce a una forma de presencia," lo confronta.

El libro comprende una amplia recopilación de detalles contructivos y perspectivas para facilitar el estudio y la comprensión del alumno. Estructuración dividida en 11 bloques temáticos: Disposición de armaduras. Escaleras. Zapatas de cimentación. Pilotes y encepados. Muros de contención de hormigón armado. Muros pantalla. Forjados unidireccionales. Forjados losa y placa de hormigón armado. Forjados bidireccionales. Se han contemplado las instrucciones EHE, EFHE-96 Y Norma Sismoresistente.

The book is an historic and graphical account of the patios of "vecindad" (neighbourhood) in the port city of Veracruz, in a period that goes from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century. The foreword of this edition, states that the first record of a patio of a "vecindad" dates back to 1791, highlighting that those patios have seen the early years of musician and singer "Toña la Negra" and were the place of origin of the famous "picadas" from Veracruz, one of the most popular snacks of the jarocha traditional cuisine.

Winner of the 2020 SAMLA Studies Book Award — Edited Collection Cities both near and far communicate in a variety of ways. Travel between, through, and among urban centers initiates contact, and cities themselves are sites of ever-changing cultural and historical encounters. Predictable and surprising challenges and opportunities arise when city borders are crossed, voices meet, and artistic traditions find their counterparts. Using the Latin word for “translation,” translatio, or “to carry across,” as a point of departure, Avenues of Translation explores how translation...