Patrimonio urbano de la Ciudad de México: la herencia disputada

"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...

Estamos ante un libro singular que, como una hoja de papel, tiene dos caras inevitables y complementarias. Esta dividido en dos partes claramente diferenciadas: una tematica - los elementos de la arquitectura - y otra de recorrido historico - la historia y el significado de la arquitectura -.La primera parte, dividida en ocho capitulos, afronta los conceptos basicos de la arquitectura, a los que Roth denomina elementos. La segunda parte se dedica de manera didactica y sistematica a la historia y al significado de la arquitectura. Roth recorre a lo largo de trece capitulos la historia de la...

Describes the degree and license mechanisms for the professional practice of architecture in Peru from the first courses in the 19th century through the beginning of the 20th century, with a detailed presentation of the school formation of the architects from 1910 to 1950 in the School of Engineering of the university. The book was originally the author's masters thesis and won the prize "Héctor Velarde" during the XI Bienal Nacional de Arquitectura, organized in 2004 by CAP.

"This work examines and illustrates the cultural transactions suggested by Hispanophilia in Puerto Rican Architecture. It traces the appropriation of styles associated with ""things Spanish"" through the process of revival: ""the past as lived by the present."""