Patrimonio urbano de la Ciudad de México: la herencia disputada

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 ...

Información ilustrada de los interiores y exteriores de las pirámides, su construcción y sus fines verdaderos. Un manual completo sobre las pirámides del Antiguo Egipto durante la Edad de las Pirámides. Contiene: las ubicaciones y dimensiones de los interiores y exteriores de estas pirámides; la historia y los constructores de las pirámides; las teorías de su construcción; las teorías sobre su finalidad y función; la geometría sagrada que se incorporó al diseño de las pirámides; y mucho, mucho más. Esta edición ampliada del libro consta de siete partes completamente...

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.

This volume of a series, focussing on the basic elements of architecture delivers a very close insight into the divers possibilities of designing doors. The door is the most essential component of a house. It is both a separating as well as an adjoining element and permits entering from an external area to the private interior. This book presents over 80 projects showing exceptional designs of doors and entrances of shops, hotels, private houses, museums and many other spaces all over the world. An index with contact information of the designers and architects is enclosed.