La emergencia de las nuevas ciudades en la era global

"Critical study and research of the life and architecture of Urzúa (b. Mexico) who along architects Luis Barragán and Ignacio Díaz Morales started the localartistic movement known as "regionalismo" in Guadalajara. The edition is divided in 3 sections: his life, closely related to his architecture, an illustrated catalogue of his life production and acollection of facsimile copies of documents from his personal archives"--Provided by vendor.

La ciudad europea aún hoy ofrece al visitante la posibilidad de emprender un viaje en el tiempo, brindándonos diversos escenarios para explorar las épocas históricas que nos precedieron, tanto en Venecia como en Budapest, tanto en Praga como en París, en medio del tejido histórico de origen romano o medieval, en la forma de las calles y de los edificios, en el color de las piedras y de los materiales que los componen. Los ojos curiosos de un viajero pueden así entrever, detrás de imágenes del presente, el entretejido de tiempos de antaño, del trabajo de hombres y sociedades que...

Describes the degree and license mechanisms for the professional practice of architecture in Peru from the first courses in the 19th century through the beginning of the 20th century, with a detailed presentation of the school formation of the architects from 1910 to 1950 in the School of Engineering of the university. The book was originally the author's masters thesis and won the prize "Héctor Velarde" during the XI Bienal Nacional de Arquitectura, organized in 2004 by CAP.

"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...