Barcelona: de la ciudad acabada al territorio metapolitano

"Después de la exitosa conquista de Tenochtitlán en 1521 por Hernán Cortés y su gavilla de aventureros, nacería la Nueva España. La madre España dominaría este inmenso territorio por trescientos largos años. Tres siglos gobernados por 64 virreyes; [...] haciendo que el tiempo y el progreso se estancaran por décadas en la Colonia, como si nada nuevo e interesante pudiera ocurrir en el inmenso dominio español en América. Hechos relevantes, ocasionados por las beligerantes Francia e Inglaterra en Europa, agitarían las tranquilas aguas de la Nueva España, generando vientos de...

Contribución a la reflexión crítica sobre el futuro de nuestras ciudades, en particular, la Ciudad de México, a partir de sus centros y barrios históricos. El contexto son las recientes transformaciones urbanas realizadas bajo una lógica que privilegia el lucro.

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...

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style and accomplishments written by a leading architecture critic. Then, approximately twenty noteworthy works and projects are discussed by the architect and presented in detail with site plans, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.