La red austral

Who ever said you can't have it all? This highly useful and decorative guide profiles lodgings around the world where you can enjoy the hippest of hospitality without breaking the bank. Including affordable hotels in locales as varied as Amsterdam and Cape Town, this guide makes sure your vacation fantasies can become reality.

La lectura rápida de cualquier revista de actualidad nos revela la existencia de un mundo del lujo y de la sofisticación que es entregado a un público masivo que aspira integrarse a él. Este impulso inspiracional llega a través de los contenidos y de las páginas de publicidad. El ideal de esta vida ostentosa tiene su punto de lanza: la moda. De ahí que sea legítimo interrogarse: ¿qué vinculación existe entre el dinero y la moda? ¿Qué nos revela el consumo? ¿Qué nos dice de quién compra y persigue objetos de moda? ¿Es nuestra época la única que ha consolidado esa alianza...

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 ...

A study of Bogota viewed as a museum (outside of the traditional museum). This work offers a critical look at modern city through a series of tours through downtown Bogotá, specifically on Seventh Avenue between Calles 11 and 16 that was transformed from Bogotazo through an urban renewal project. It turned the area into a paradigm of what should be a modern Bogotá. The book discusses the aesthetic character of its architecture, the connections between traditional museums, and reaffirmed the principles of order and functionality of the modern movement and led to rules that have sought...