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City and Architecture, Six generations who built up the modern Latin America comes from the architecture and urban planning history developed in the Latin-American area between 1885 and 1975. This is an organized work from a method called by the author generational, which covers 90 years (six generations). The names of those generations, that each one of them covers a period of 15 years, are gathered together in the chapters names of the book. The exposition of the context of each historic period is connected with the analysis of the architecture work, which offers a wide outlook of the...

El objetivo de este libro (el primero de una colección dirigida por el Centro Metropolitano de Diseño) es presentar las pautas de seguridad correspondientes a los patios de juego de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires con el fin de generar una mayor conciencia entre las personas que diseñan, instalan y mantienen las áreas públicas de juegos infantiles. Esta publicación es el producto del trabajo conjunto entre el CMD y la Secretaría de Medio Ambiente del GCBA. A lo largo de 2001 se realizaron numerosos relevamientos de campo, investigaciones, seminarios con expertos locales e internacionales...

A study of each phase of the prolific trajectory of architect Pani (b. Mexico). A strong follower of Le Corbusier principles and whose modernist and grand scale urban and construction designs allowed him to construct in Mexico the first international hotel, the first multi family housing complex, the first condominium and the first satellite city. His architectural legacy includes more than 130 projects covering all types of buildings: housing, schools, hospitals, airports, commercial, office and urban, designs. All photographs (black and white 8x10 plaques ) in this catalogue were shot by...

The book is an historic and graphical account of the patios of "vecindad" (neighbourhood) in the port city of Veracruz, in a period that goes from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century. The foreword of this edition, states that the first record of a patio of a "vecindad" dates back to 1791, highlighting that those patios have seen the early years of musician and singer "Toña la Negra" and were the place of origin of the famous "picadas" from Veracruz, one of the most popular snacks of the jarocha traditional cuisine.