Un cánon de arquitectura moderna, 1900-2000

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.--

Este libro estudia las posibilidades que tiene la estructura - es decir, vigas, pilares, entramados, soportes y otros elementos- para enriquecer la arquitectura. Lo que se busca aquí es que los arquitectos perciban la estructura como un elemento integral de la arquitectura antes que como una simple técnica aplicada. También se pretende incitarlos a que diseñen estructuras ellos mismos, en colaboración desde luego con los calculistas de estructuras, para así poder hacer realidad sus ideas arquitectónicas. Asimismo, se intenta cambiar esa visión - habitual al menos entre los estudiantes ...

A major critical study by noted architect and researcher Ramón Gutiérrez on the different phases of the history and evolution of the architectural patrimony of Paraguay spanning from primitive and colonial times to present days. The book includes a large collection of period photographs and color reproductions of the watercolors of the city of Asuncion done between 1855 and 1856 by French traveler Francisco Vincent of colonial and old Asuncion that graphically document how the original urban profile of Asunción has paid the tribute of the urban development and progress sacrificing its most ...

"No historical European city looks as modern as Berlin. Renovating and changing constantly, in the last one hundred years a notion of modernity in architecture peculiar to Berlin has developed in the German capital. In light of the multitude of meanings this term can have the present volume shows a broad spectrum of Modernism with its technical and constructive as well as formal and aesthetic innovations in the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century, marked by the great names of architecture, from Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe to Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid. Berlin...