Suiza Constructiva

An analysis of the subject of the identity that has characterized historically the cultural and urban-architectonic development of the towns of Latin America, the Caribbean and Mexico.

CONTENIDO: PRIMERA PARTE: RELATOS DE SU VIDA: La formacion.- La Escuela de Arquitectura.- Iniciacion en la practica.- En busca de la nueva arquitectura.- La etapa radical.- La Escuela Superior de Ingenieria y Arquitectura.- Las inquietudes politicas.- El movimiento de 1938.- El Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes.- Los libros.- El movimiento de integracion plastica.- SEGUNDA PARTE: LOS ULTIMOS ESCRITOS: Mi evolucion como arquitecto.- Los proyectos y las obras.- Racionalismo y monotonia.- Evolucion del Racionalismo.- ldeario.- Estetica urbana.- El espacio exterior no es espacio privado.- El...

The Catalog Architecture of the Modern Movement of Peru (CAMMP) is the outcome of the investigation of the same name the University of Lima developed between 2013 and 2015. It is the first initiative that set out to inventory and document the most important buildings of the national production in the modern period. Thus, collects and systematizes information and original documents of architecture - drawings, descriptions, photographs, perspectives - found in various publications of the time and files of the authors themselves.--

The book examines the long, productive and stormy relationship architect Le Corbusier had with Argentina and the series of events in consequence. His Argentinean disciples Jorge Ferrari Hardoy, Juan Kurchan and Antonio Bonet, although influenced by the master architect had their own architectonic and urban ideas. The book examines the "Austral Net" created towards the productive, plural and complex relationship of these 4 personages where the central figure is the famed Swiss architect. The book is chronologically organized and includes a selection of the most important architecture...