La arquitectura moderna

Ten examples of "private neighborhoods" or residential urbanizations mainly in the area surrounding Buenos Aires mostly built between 1990-2000 including neighborhoods with communal services, the country club, small farms or "club de chacras," a mountain village and large towns.

As part of the celebration of the Symposium "Shell and Spatial Structures: New Materials and Technologies, New Designs and Innovations -- A Sustainable Approach to Architectural and Structural Design" of the International Association of Special Structures (IASS-SLTE) held October 23-31, 2008 in Acapulco, the Faculty of Architecture of the UNAM developed 3 projects specifically for the occasion: 1) An exhibition of representative scale models of the "golden age" (1950-1975) of the construction of reinforced concrete shells in Mexico; 2) A documentary featuring the characteristics and evolution ...

Rafael Guastavino (1842 1908) nació en Valencia y estudió en Barcelona. Allí realizó sus primeras obras con un empleo extensivo de bóvedas tabicadas, que el consideraba un modo Acohesivo distinto de la construcción tradicional. En 1881 emigró América y fundó una empresa para la construcción de bóvedas tabicadas. Fue un exitó y participó en la construcción algunos de los edificios americanos más importantes. El presente volumen recoge la traducción al castellano de os dos libros que publicó en América: El ensayo sobre la construcción cohesiva de 1892 y la Función de la...

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.