Nuevas ecologías

The present edition publishes part of the research papers presented during the "Seminario de Investigación Arquitectura para la Producción" organized by the university of Michoacán between 2001 and 2002 that included the participation of national and international academics. The book gathers 23 collective and individual multidisciplinary works that examine from various perspectives the history of architecture in rural areas. Works are mainly focused in the colonial territory of the ex-bishopry of Michoacán divided in 4 main topics: Space, settlements, technology and environment and...

The book is the resulting papers from the Seminars of Latin American Architecture (SAL) organized by CEDODAL as an example of academic cooperation between Latin American architects who share their concern for the conservation of the region's architectural patrimony. This edition comprises case studies and historical, economic, social and architectural analysis of the farms and landowners of the haciendas and estancias from 7 countries of Latin America: Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, México, Perú and Puerto Rico.

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...

Una Cátedra de Proyectos puede organizarse de múltiples maneras. Es conocida la condición impuesta por Rem Koolhaas para impartir un taller en Harvard: no tener ninguna relación con el proyecto. Interesado solamente en la investigación, era lo único que quería compartir con los alumnos. El experimento se reveló controvertido y finalmente desapareció. No es así como hemos planteado nuestra docencia. Por resumir, respetamos el viejo dictum, fundado en una sabia experiencia, de que a proyectar se aprende proyectando y reflexionando al tiempo sobre el proyecto. En nuestra Unidad Docente ...