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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...

"The book examines the life and architectonic and didactic legacy of noted architect O'Gorman (b. Mexico) with critical texts by expert scholars regarding some of his ideas on the aesthetics of architecture with a special emphasis in public primary schools. Includes a reprint of the booklet titled "Escuelas Primarias 1932" by O'Gorman as a report while working for the Mexican Ministry of Education (SEP) of the construction of 28 public primary schools in Mexico City."--Provided by vendor.

El resurgimiento de la utilización no destructiva de recursos renovables para la construcción de viviendas responde al objetivo prioritario del mundo actual para "edificar un futuro sostenido y sustentable". Al poner al alcance de los habitantes de habla hispana, los procedimientos e ingeniosas soluciones planteadas en el texto, la adaptadora desea contribuir con los autores de Build it with Bales, Steve MacDonald y Matts Myhrman, en la divulgación de este exitoso y antiguo sistema constructivo, que logra, día a día, una progresiva incorporación de adeptos por la posibilidad de...

Pensar la ciudad es un acto que contiene numerosas dimensiones, dimensiones técnicas, culturales, sociales y de todo tipo. Tal vez podríamos decir con más precisión que pensar la ciudad es pensar un régimen de sentido, régimen que es a su vez su propia materialidad, visto así no sería la ciudad el escenario de la vida, sino que al mismo tiempo seria la vida la que hace ciudad. Por eso pensar la ciudad no es el mero acto analítico de causa y efecto sino que consiste en meterse en el indeterminado espacio donde la vida misma va construyendo mundo material. Es un pensamiento que excede...

"The book reviews the personality and temperament of neoclassic architect De Alba (b. Mexico) through his architecture. De Alba was an architect/engineer who left anarchitectural legacy in the cities of Guadalajara and Chapala active at the turn of the 20th century whose constructions reflect the universal eclecticism of a Revolutionary generation and industrial society educated during the Porfirio Diaz regime"--Provided by vendor.