Grecia antigua

Contribución a la reflexión crítica sobre el futuro de nuestras ciudades, en particular, la Ciudad de México, a partir de sus centros y barrios históricos. El contexto son las recientes transformaciones urbanas realizadas bajo una lógica que privilegia el lucro.

"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...

"No historical European city looks as modern as Berlin. Renovating and changing constantly, in the last one hundred years a notion of modernity in architecture peculiar to Berlin has developed in the German capital. In light of the multitude of meanings this term can have the present volume shows a broad spectrum of Modernism with its technical and constructive as well as formal and aesthetic innovations in the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century, marked by the great names of architecture, from Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe to Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid. Berlin...

Este libro recopila, por primera vez en español en una obra conjunta, la parte más significativa del trabajo escrito realizado por Jean Rodolphe Perronet (1708-1794) así como la totalidad de las láminas de dichos trabajos. La obra de Perronet, originalmente publicada en Francia en 1782 por la Imprenta Real sigue siendo poco conocida hoy en día. Su trabajo es parte del desarrollo general de la ingeniería francesa de las estructuras del s. XVIII. Obsesionado por modernizar puentes y caminos, en una constante búsqueda de progreso sobrepasando los límites del arco de piedra, con un gran...