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Mexico City Architecture Guide is a compilation of more than 150 works of architecture dating from the early 20th century up to the present day. To help orient readers, the guide is divided into five areas and includes seven maps to create a comprehensive panorama of the Mexican megalopolis. Each project includes details about the relevant architects, location and year of construction, as well as public transport information. The texts, photographs and maps created for this guide give fresh shape to the city. Now available in an English-language edition for the first time, Mexico City...

An analysis of the subject of the identity that has characterized historically the cultural and urban-architectonic development of the towns of Latin America, the Caribbean and Mexico.

200 colour photos and plans ”One of a series of authoritative pocket guides introduced only last fall, the Paris and : guide provides tourists and professionals alike with an overview of new and notable architecture and interior design in "the city of light." More than sixty buildings-governmental and residential, commercial and religious-by renowned architects such as Mario Botta, Jean Nouvel, Renzo Piano, Tadao Ando and I. M. Pei to name a few, are profiled and accompanied by color photographs. Easy to use and attractively designed with flexi covers, these CD-sized gems will be a...

La arquitectura se ha interrelacionado con el arte a lo largo de su historia no sólo con las edificaciones, la manifestación física de las formas constructivas, sino también mediante su expresión gráfica. Sin embargo, en el último siglo la arquitectura ha penetrado profundamente tanto en la vida cotidiana como en el arte, y todo el arco conceptual existente entre ellos se ha «arquitecturizado». Es decir, la arquitectura no sólo se ha conformado en tanto que aliado de una serie de «políticas estatales de sujeción», sino también como una «materia prima» fundamental para...