La Plaza Mayor y los orígenes del Madrid barroco

City and Architecture, Six generations who built up the modern Latin America comes from the architecture and urban planning history developed in the Latin-American area between 1885 and 1975. This is an organized work from a method called by the author generational, which covers 90 years (six generations). The names of those generations, that each one of them covers a period of 15 years, are gathered together in the chapters names of the book. The exposition of the context of each historic period is connected with the analysis of the architecture work, which offers a wide outlook of the...

An analysis of the subject of the identity that has characterized historically the cultural and urban-architectonic development of the towns of Latin America, the Caribbean and Mexico.

An in-depth study of Colombian architect Luis Restrepo, this collection brings together a selection of his constructions developed by between 1989 and 2007. In this innovative presentation of architectural work, each construction is thoroughly illustrated with both color photographs and reproductions of the blueprints, yielding a true glimpse of Restrepo's genius. Escaping from any classification, his works restore the essentials of architecture—space, materials, and light—and this compilation is sure to appeal to enthusiasts of both architecture and design. Exentas de artificios y...

De la figura de Luis Barragan (Guadalajara, Jalisco; 1902 - Mexico, D.F.; 1988) y su obra, mucho se ha dicho en el ambito de lo arquitectonico. Sin embarg, es pertinente continuar estudiandolo porque su legado ofrece un valioso y vigente aprendizaje para cualquier habitante que quiera adentrarse en sus espacios de riqueza sensorial. La experiencia que en ellos se obtenga puede alcanzar niveles poeticos, que mas que ser explicados, necesitan de la vivencia para ser entendidos. Este numero de la coleccion Arquitectura y Humanidades conforma una invitacion para realizar un recorrido por las...