Frei Otto

Entornos Vitales es un manual practico que presenta graficamente una serie de criterios y situaciones que permiten enriquecer los proyectos con un mayor nivel de permeabilidad, variedad, versatilidad, riqueza visual y otras cualidades que hacen de un espacio arquitectonico un entorno mas humano y vital. Los autores parten de la denuncia de la deshumanizacion de la arquitectura moderna y plantean una serie de medidas practicas para conseguir disenos mas proximos al ciudadano. En este sentido, no se pretende establecer ni una teoria ni una historia de la arquitectura, sino aportar un conjunto...

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.

El estudio e inventario de arquitectos e ingenieros ubicado en la colonia Polanco está organizado alfabéticamente e incluye a su vez más de 355 inmuebles, especificando el tipo de inmueble, su ubicación y una bibliografía referente a los autores.

In the nineties, the modern orthodoxy has stopped imposing its criteria. At a time when there are as many architectural philosophies as architects, this volume offers us some answers to the common question of where present-day architecture is going. This view of the current world of architecture is presented through analysis of the projects of the most recognized and respected architects, but also the most innovative ones and those of the new generations.