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In the immediate postwar years, a new type of modern architecture emerges. Beatriz Colomina presents domesticity as a potent new weapon in a changed architectural battlefield. This architecture becomes the property of the middle-class consumer bombarded with images of domestic bliss, a lifestyle campaign launched through recycled military techniques. The significance of architects like Charles and Ray Eames lies in their sensitivity to buildings and images both defining space. Colomina is Director of Princeton University's Architecture PhD program and acclaimed author of Privacy and Publicity ...

The life and architecture of Cetto, a brilliant architect intellectually formed around the German expressionist movement and who, when arriving in Mexico "revalues" the traditional materials and proceedings of the Mexican culture integrating them gradually into his architecture. Part of a monographic series on 20th century modern architects.

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.

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.