ArquiMática

The subject of this artist's sketchbook is an artistic and environmental project that was inaugurated by Cristina Iglesias on November 6, 2010. It concerns an underwater labyrinth, consisting of three submerged rooms built in cement, in the waters off the Espiritu Santo Island in Baja California's Candelero Bay. This house will slowly be inhabited by life. The project was promoted by the Fundación Mexicana para la Educación Ambiental A.C. (Fundea), in collaboration with the marine biologists and conservationists of the La Paz Coasts and The San Diego Oceanography Institute. This portfolio...

The author describes and discusses the influence Le Corbusier in Uruguay through a series of trips, the first done by the Swiss-French architect in 1929, and the remaining ones from the three Uruguayan architects who joined the workshop of the notable architect: Carlos Gómez Gavazzo, in 1933, Justino Serralta, in 1948, and Carlos Clémot, in 1949. The study also includes aspects of Antonio Bonet Castellana's trip, who was there in 1937 and in Uruguay from 1945 to 1948, and additionally analyzes what Eladio Dieste learned from his "Le Courvoisier partners" Serralta and Clémot as well as the...

"Comprehensive study by a group of scholars explores the development, expansion, and economic impact of haciendas in the state of Morelos, especially those connected to the sugar industry. Illustrated with contemporary color photographs, 19th- and early-20th-century photographs, and maps. Also includes much archival data"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

¿Hasta qué punto el edificio del museo debe ser también una creación artística? El protagonismo de las realizaciones arquitectónicas para el arte contemporáneo en España en las últimas décadas ha disparado la polémica funcionalidad versus artisticidad de la arquitectura del museo. El libro plantea un análisis arquitectónico y museográfico de los museos y centros de arte contemporáneo en España desde su aparición a finales del siglo xix hasta nuestros días, sin desvincular este proceso del contexto internacional. El museo de arte contemporáneo es una realidad conceptual,...