El museo fuera de lugar

"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...

El desarrollo del capitalismo industrial durante los siglos xix y xx trajo consigo un aumento muy considerable de la complejidad del mundo economico y tecnico, lo cual, en el plano de la administracion empresarial, ha generado la necesidad de ampliar y profundizar su ambito teorico y practico. Hoy en dia la gestion de empresas abarca un vasto campo del saber, donde concurren y se complementan los conocimientos provenientes de diversas ramas de las humanidades, las ciencias y la tecnica, y en donde cada disciplina juega un importante papel en la tarea de hacer dicha gestion cada vez mas...

Architectural guide to the city of Guadalajara, with a selection of close to 300 buildings representative of all time periods. The guide is divided in 3 sections: the first, the largest and medullar part of the book is the presentation of the buildings; a second section is an inventory of buildings important in the history of the city but now disappeared, and a third section includes location maps with recommended itineraries and routes. Each entry includes the name, date and brief history of the building and the name of the architect.

The expert contributors to this lavishly illustrated volume, devoted entirely to Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion of 1929, address here for the first time the forgotten contexts of the Pavilion's genesis. Habitually thought of as an abstract, unpolluted, and splendidly isolated building--a precursor of Mies's American period--the Pavilion is revealed here as a thoroughly European work, perhaps less pristine but more authentic. Mies and Lilly Reich were commissioned to design not only the Pavilion but also more than one hundred thousand square feet of German stands spread throughout the...