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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...

THIRTY FIVE EXAMPLES OF THE BEST MODERN GARDENS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. A SOURCEBOOK FOR AMATEUR AND PROFESSIONAL GARDENS.

La publicación, realizada por el Instituto Distrital de Patrimonio Cultural, hace un recorrido por la obra del importante arquitecto José María Montoya Valenzuela y un reconocimiento a su práctica profesional, con reseñas de sus principales proyectos, entre los que se encuentran el Seminario Mayor de Bogotá y edificaciones del Colegio La Enseñanza. La retrospectiva comprende un reconocimiento a uno de los pioneros y más destacados arquitectos de la denominada “primera modernidad” en la historia de la arquitectura de Bogotá. Su nombre resuena en la ciudad debido a los casi 50...

Un apasionante viaje a través del tiempo, desde el Mayrit musulmán hasta la modernidad del siglo XXI, nos desvela el alma de la ciudad de Madrid, describe las transformaciones del espacio urbano y analiza los misterios que se ocultan tras la génesis de algunos de sus edificios más representativos. La Historia secreta de Madrid es una suerte de "guía de autor", un itinerario histórico que nos ofrece las claves para entender este espacio que comienza a definirse con murallas y arrabales medievales de trazado irregular, atraviesa los siglos cargado de conventos, hospitales, mercados y...

This number of the monographic series is dedicated to restoration specialist, architect and watercolor painter Villa Chávez (b. Mexico). This extensive study of Villa Chávez life and architecture is divided in 2 parts: the first reviews his academic career and his professional practice in Guadalajara and Colima. A second part reviews in detail his restoration projects, his architecture, his open space interventions and his pictorial production (watercolors and drawings). Amongst other academic contributions Villa Chávez founded the School of Architecture in the University of Colima and was ...