Suiza Constructiva

In this work, which is based on heritage architecture and cultural studies, the relationship between communities and habitat is studied to understand their way of conceiving and inhabiting the urban territory. The author participation in the Plan Especial de Manejo y Protección (PEMP) of the set of architectural assets of Republican architecture of Quibdó led her to question the handling of historical centers containing declared architectural assets in the country. The stories made invisible or denied by hegemonic heritage perspectives "were the route charted within the framework of the PhD ...

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.

Francisco de la Maza nos lleva por un recorrido en el M xico del siglo XVII: la ciudad y sus habitantes, las inundaciones, la Universidad, los conventos, parroquias y hospitales, pasan revista en este libro que, dentro de su concisi n, ofrece el ameno retrato de un siglo.

Desde finales de la decada de los sesenta, han ido surgiendo, en la representacion de la arquitectura, planteamientos graficos al margen de la operatividad tradicional, que han abierto interrogantes sobre sus origenes, sus modos de expresion y sus posibilidades de generalizacion. Esto ha sucedido especialmente en el ambito de lo que se ha entendido como neovanguardias arquitectonicas, la tendencia caracterizada por la experimentacion a partir de diferentes aspectos de una espacialidad moderna, y tambien, la mas renovadora, en lo referente a la representacion arquitectonica. Cuando la cultura...