Introducción a la arquitectura contemporánea

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.

Con este volumen se inicia una colección de textos, coordinada por el Departamento de Infraestructuras del Transporte y Territorio de la UPC, cuyo objetivo es aportar una visión de la construcción de la ciudad y del territorio desde la perspectiva de la construcción de sus redes de infraestructura, actividad primordial de la ingeniería civil, con efectos cada vez más contundentes. El libro se centra en el campo de la urbanística y pretende cubrir un vacío en la formación de los ingenieros, los cuales con frecuencia perciben las infraestructuras tan sólo desde sus aspectos...

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.

A study of each phase of the prolific trajectory of architect Pani (b. Mexico). A strong follower of Le Corbusier principles and whose modernist and grand scale urban and construction designs allowed him to construct in Mexico the first international hotel, the first multi family housing complex, the first condominium and the first satellite city. His architectural legacy includes more than 130 projects covering all types of buildings: housing, schools, hospitals, airports, commercial, office and urban, designs. All photographs (black and white 8x10 plaques ) in this catalogue were shot by...