Diseño urbano

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.

El ensayo de Fritz Neumeyer es una verdadera biografía intelectual de Mies, en la que se va identificando la secuencia de lecturas e influencias determinantes en la formación de Mies: Nietzsche, Behrens, Riehl, Spranger, Berlage, Franzé, Guardini, Jaeger ..., Neumeyer entrecruza estas lecturas con la obra arquitectónica y teórica de Mies, ofreciendo el tejido vivo de la actividad y pensamiento de uno de los maestros de la arquitectura moderna. Se publican en apéndice los diarios de Mies, textos de conferencias suyas, cartas y ensayos inéditos, junto con los manifiestos más conocidos....

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.