La red austral

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 ...

"This study goes beyond a formal description and esthetic analysis of house design in Mexico to offer an interpretation based on the complex network of economic, social, and cultural relations. Begins with an analysis of the indigenous home and lifestyle and continues into postrevolutionary, modern, and contemporary periods of historic transition, during which a new conception of urban space developed offering greater possibilities for individual expression. Contains many b/w plates of colonial city plans, 19th-century plans and photographs, and 20th-century photographs up to the...

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.

En la línea de Jane Jacobs en Muerte y vida de las ciudades y de Edward Glaeser en El triunfo de la ciudad, Jonathan F. P. Rose, un visionario en el ámbito del desarrollo urbano, aboga por el papel de las ciudades para abordar los desafíos ambientales, económicos y sociales del siglo XXI. Las ciudades son la cuna de la civilización; centros de cultura, comercio y progreso, es en ellas donde se fraguan las oportunidades y, hacia el año 2080, ellas serán también donde viva el ochenta por ciento de la población mundial. A medida que avance el siglo XXI, las áreas metropolitanas...