Historia de la arquitectura y el urbanismo mexicanos

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style and accomplishments written by a leading architecture critic. Then, approximately twenty noteworthy works and projects are discussed by the architect and presented in detail with site plans, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.

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.

El libro ofrece al lector una breve selección de estudios de caso representativos de los contenidos tratados en la especialización Ciudades y territorios sostenibles del Programa Ciudad y Urbanismo de la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. El objetivo es aportar conocimientos teóricos, así como instrumentos y métodos utilizados para gestionar el medio ambiente, el territorio y las infraestructuras de transportes, movilidad y servicios urbanos, siempre teniendo en cuenta la reducción del impacto ambiental, la preservación de la biodiversidad en áreas metropolitanas, el incremento de la...

The Magic Box, carried out by Dominique Perrault Architecture, is more than a public sports facility. It is a whole conceptual, urbanistic and constructive manifesto through the insertion of a radically contemporary building in a sensitive environment, which has helped to regenerate the southern edge of the city of Madrid and to round off the urban banks of the Manzanares River. The book includes unpublished texts by Andreas Ruby (a didactic essay) and Hans Ulrich Ibrist (an exclusive interview). It also includes a technical dossier dedicated to the construction of the building highly...