Ciudades imaginadas en la literatura y en las artes

Se aborda el estudio de la formación y desarrollo de las mezquitas hispanomusulmanas conexionadas en lo que cabe con las principales del Norte de África y de Oriente. Se trata de un estado de la cuestión con adelanto de las novedades, enfoques o propuestas articuladas en los últimos decenios en las distintas áreas geográficas de la Península y de los países vecinos: Marruecos, Argelia y Túnez. Se incide en la dualidad iglesia-mezquita, para los orígenes del Islam andalusí, y mezquita-iglesia de la vertiente cristiana a partir del año 1085, la cuestión del paso de un edificio de...

This book revolves around the drawings and scale models especially selected by architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha, who was conferred the degree of Doctorate Honoris Causa by the Universidad Nacional del Litoral in 2009. The personal selection done by PMdR resulted in a publishing project that included the participation of a group of academics from Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina convened so that, by means of short texts, freely elaborated their perspective on those drawings. The book is, therefore, the result of a collective work whose purpose is to think the architecture from its most common...

Life and work of polemic architect and urbanist Meyer (b. Switzerland), one of the most important functionalists of the 1920's. The former director of the Bauhaus, he worked for the Post-Revolutionary Regimes in Mexico as the director of the Instituto del Urbanismo y Planification from 1942 through 1949, while also becoming the editor of the collective graphic workshop Taller de Grafica Popular (TGP) from 1947 to 1949. Many plates of his architectural designs and the structural diagrams Meyer used for the Bauhaus and in IUP in Mexico.

This catalogue offers a chronological survey of the work constructed between 1984 and 1994 by the architect Jo Coenen (Heerlen, 1949), with offices in Eindhoven and Maastricht.