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Reference honoring the cultural and architecture legacy of Daz Morales (b. Mexico) in the centenary of his birth. The present catalogue complements the book "Ignacio Diaz, su pensamiento" and is the result of an exhaustive research in the archive of the Diaz Morales family, examining a large number of documents and selecting for this publication the most representative. The drawings, documents, photographs, plans and elevations of each project are chronologically organized and represent the 7 decades of designs and architectural projects by the noted architect.

A compilation of texts by Professor Julio Arroyo previously presented in different academic meetings make up the present edition centered in public spaces in contemporary cities and the architecture that is concomitant, taking as a study reference the city of Santa Fe. Public spaces are a crucial category of urban life. However, in contemporary cities inconsistencies and contradictions prevail against the ethical postulates that define them -social cohesion, democratic inclusion, free expression, symbolic representation of citizen values- and the phenomena of what is public, dissociated in...

Xavier Bordils (Castelló, 1939) has stood out for his contributions to promote and spread design, graphic design and packaging, as well as for his intense projectual activity. Convictions and preferences are summarised in the text that goes with his mark: ¿Xavier Bordils: anti-stylist design, graphic design, structural design, global design, utilitary design, industrial product design, sematic design, architectural design, design, blah, blah, blah.¿

Iniciar una investigación en el campo de las disciplinas proyectuales puede ser un desafío ya que en estas no existe una tradición arraigada de investigación. Los investigadores que se han animado a hacerlo han debido enfrentar enormes retos e incertidumbres, pues las propias características de este campo dificultan la extrapolación de modelos metodológicos útiles y afincados en otras áreas del saber. Han sido caminantes que, sin brújula o mapa, trazaron un camino en un territorio no explorado. No obstante, producir conocimiento en Diseño, Arquitectura y Urbanismo es una práctica...