La fachada ventilada y ligera

A serious study and analysis that addresses the symbolism, ornamentation, and history one of Mexico's historic architectural monuments, the Chapel of Loreto.

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...

In this work, which is based on heritage architecture and cultural studies, the relationship between communities and habitat is studied to understand their way of conceiving and inhabiting the urban territory. The author participation in the Plan Especial de Manejo y Protección (PEMP) of the set of architectural assets of Republican architecture of Quibdó led her to question the handling of historical centers containing declared architectural assets in the country. The stories made invisible or denied by hegemonic heritage perspectives "were the route charted within the framework of the PhD ...

En " Las piedras de Venecia " , John Ruskin escribió: «Con independencia de estilo, época, autor o nacionalidad, debe existir una ley que permita distinguir la buena arquitectura de la mala, porque discutir sin tener principios en que apoyarse, es peor que aceptar una moneda dudosa sin hacerla sonar». Sin tener la seguridad de haber encontrado tan necesaria ley universal, Antonio Miranda ha establecido en este libro unos principios que son los que han construido este canon de arquitectura con las obras que merecen el título de obras maestras. En este canon antológico se tratará, en...