Gaudí y la razón constructiva

Este livro reúne cinco projectos de arquitectura de habitação do arquitecto Ricardo Vieira de Melo. As fotografias de exterior e interior apresentam detalhes excepcionais. Prefácio de João Rapagão.

Reference honoring the cultural and architecture legacy of Daz Morales (b. Mexico) in the centenary of his birth. The present catalogue complements the book "Ignacio Diaz, su pensamiento" and is the result of an exhaustive research in the archive of the Diaz Morales family, examining a large number of documents and selecting for this publication the most representative. The drawings, documents, photographs, plans and elevations of each project are chronologically organized and represent the 7 decades of designs and architectural projects by the noted architect.

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.

Teniendo en cuenta que la industria de la construcción consume alrededor del 50% de los recursos naturales mundiales, situación que la convierte en la actividad del hombre menos sostenible del planeta, resulta necesario para el arquitecto, en tanto diseñador del hábitat, pensar en un cambio paradigmático hacia el desarrollo sustentable, a fin de asegurar la satisfacción de las necesidades del hombre, no solo actuales, sino también de las generaciones futuras. Este cambio de paradigma hacia el desarrollo sustentable implica una apertura en tres aspectos fundamentales del pensamiento y...