Rogelio Salmona

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.

Completísima guía de arquitectura de Barcelona, presentada en un cómodo formato, repleta de fotos, planos de localización y textos explicativos.

1. EL TIEMPO PASADO. - La Urbs Regia. Toledo Capital del Reino Visigodo. - La primacía eclesiástica. - Nuevos paisajes urbanos del estado visigodo. - La referencia visigoda siglos después. - La vega baja en los siglos XVIII y XIX. Un territorio agrícola. - La vega baja en el siglo XX. - Un nuevo rumbo para la vega baja de Toledo. 2. TIEMPOS DE FUTURO PARA LA VEGA BAJA DE TOLEDO. - La cultura material. Arqueología y territorio. - Urbanismo de un fragmento de ciudad. Usos y relaciones con lo existente. - Paisajes. Valores de la vega en sí misma. Relación con la ciudad histórica de...

City and Architecture, Six generations who built up the modern Latin America comes from the architecture and urban planning history developed in the Latin-American area between 1885 and 1975. This is an organized work from a method called by the author generational, which covers 90 years (six generations). The names of those generations, that each one of them covers a period of 15 years, are gathered together in the chapters names of the book. The exposition of the context of each historic period is connected with the analysis of the architecture work, which offers a wide outlook of the...