Historia de la forma urbana

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...

A través de este libro conoceremos el verdadero déficit habitacional de nuestro país, el que crece anualmente por aumento demográfico y obsolescencia del parque habitacional, a pesar de las viviendas que se construyen por iniciativa privada y con fondos públicos. La propuesta, orientada a la clase media, que alcanza al 40% de la población argentina, se basa en tres principios: 1) que la financiación de las viviendas sea aportada por inversores privados (que ven en los ladrillos la salvaguarda de su capital, pero que invierten sólo en unidades "premium", saturando ese mercado) a...

A collection of writings by Enrique Yañez to mark the twentieth anniversary of his death. The text presents an approach to life and observations of the architect, covering the fields of architecture, its social function, urbanism, society and culture.

Life and work of polemic architect and urbanist Meyer (b. Switzerland), one of the most important functionalists of the 1920's. The former director of the Bauhaus, he worked for the Post-Revolutionary Regimes in Mexico as the director of the Instituto del Urbanismo y Planification from 1942 through 1949, while also becoming the editor of the collective graphic workshop Taller de Grafica Popular (TGP) from 1947 to 1949. Many plates of his architectural designs and the structural diagrams Meyer used for the Bauhaus and in IUP in Mexico.