Gaudí

Iniciar una investigación en el campo de las disciplinas proyectuales puede ser un desafío ya que en estas no existe una tradición arraigada de investigación. Los investigadores que se han animado a hacerlo han debido enfrentar enormes retos e incertidumbres, pues las propias características de este campo dificultan la extrapolación de modelos metodológicos útiles y afincados en otras áreas del saber. Han sido caminantes que, sin brújula o mapa, trazaron un camino en un territorio no explorado. No obstante, producir conocimiento en Diseño, Arquitectura y Urbanismo es una práctica...

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

The present research work is based on original manuscripts and testimonies from architect González Gortázar (b. Mexico) regarding his transcendent architecture and urban designs. González Gortázar is considered at present one of the most important architects of México, creator of spaces and urban art that are now geometric symbols and references of the city of Guadalajara in México. The architect strongly practices the concept of "Space and Art" and where the city should never loose their social function for which it was originally conceived and constructed.

The author describes and discusses the influence Le Corbusier in Uruguay through a series of trips, the first done by the Swiss-French architect in 1929, and the remaining ones from the three Uruguayan architects who joined the workshop of the notable architect: Carlos Gómez Gavazzo, in 1933, Justino Serralta, in 1948, and Carlos Clémot, in 1949. The study also includes aspects of Antonio Bonet Castellana's trip, who was there in 1937 and in Uruguay from 1945 to 1948, and additionally analyzes what Eladio Dieste learned from his "Le Courvoisier partners" Serralta and Clémot as well as the...