Patrimonio urbano de la Ciudad de México: la herencia disputada

"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."""

A mediados del XIX el Ayuntamiento de Sevilla, impulsado por la necesidad de extinguir la mendicidad en las calles de la capital, fundó el Asilo de Mendicidad de San Fernando para recoger en él a cuantos niños y mayores que, bien por su avanzada edad o por encontrarse desamparados y en la orfandad, necesitaran ser asistidos.

The work of the Colombian architect Harold Martínez Espinal, shows a way to purposeful way of thinking the architecture in the suburbs. This book makes a journey from his first works in the 1960's and 1970's, determined by the influence of modern architecture, until the beginning of the second millennium where his thought continues.

Life and work of polemic architect and urbanist Meyer (b. Switzerland), one of the most important functionalists of the 1920's. The former director of the Bauhaus, he worked for the Post-Revolutionary Regimes in Mexico as the director of the Instituto del Urbanismo y Planification from 1942 through 1949, while also becoming the editor of the collective graphic workshop Taller de Grafica Popular (TGP) from 1947 to 1949. Many plates of his architectural designs and the structural diagrams Meyer used for the Bauhaus and in IUP in Mexico.