Patrimonios espacios y territorios

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style and accomplishments written by a leading architecture critic. Then, approximately twenty noteworthy works and projects are discussed by the architect and presented in detail with site plans, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.

In diesem Klassiker prC$sentiert Willy Boesiger die wichtigsten Bauten, Projekte und stadtplanerischen Entwurfe Le Corbusiers. Das Spektrum reicht von den fruhen HC$userstudien und -bauten, wie z.B. den "Citrohan"-HC$usern, den Weissenhof-HC$usern, der Wohnsiedlung in Pessac bis hin zu groCen Wohn- und GeschC$ftsbauten wie den diversen Unites d'Habitation und dem Haus des Centrosoyus in Moskau u.v.m., von theoretischen Arbeiten wie der Entwicklung des "Modulor," bis hin zu den ausfuhrlich dargestellten Stadtplanungen z.B. fur Algier, Rio de Janiero, Berlin oder Chandigarh. Jedes Projekt wird...

Louis I. Kahn mantuvo unas charlas con los estudiantes de la Rice School of Architecture en la primavera de 1968. Un ano mas tarde, estas conversaciones se reunieron en un libro que, por primera vez, se presenta al lector de lengua castellana. El texto "Luz blanca, sombra negra" introduce su pensamiento y la conversacion con los estudiantes, "El diseno conduce a una forma de presencia," lo confronta.

"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...