La evolución de la vivienda argentina

A compilation of texts by Professor Julio Arroyo previously presented in different academic meetings make up the present edition centered in public spaces in contemporary cities and the architecture that is concomitant, taking as a study reference the city of Santa Fe. Public spaces are a crucial category of urban life. However, in contemporary cities inconsistencies and contradictions prevail against the ethical postulates that define them -social cohesion, democratic inclusion, free expression, symbolic representation of citizen values- and the phenomena of what is public, dissociated in...

This number of the monographic series is dedicated to restoration specialist, architect and watercolor painter Villa Chávez (b. Mexico). This extensive study of Villa Chávez life and architecture is divided in 2 parts: the first reviews his academic career and his professional practice in Guadalajara and Colima. A second part reviews in detail his restoration projects, his architecture, his open space interventions and his pictorial production (watercolors and drawings). Amongst other academic contributions Villa Chávez founded the School of Architecture in the University of Colima and was ...

Luxurious edition that reviews the history and architecture of the Mexican governmental building "Palacio Nacional" and the rich artistic and political patrimony it holds.

La indumentaria es una de las actividades de la vida cotidiana que permite conocer datos sobre un momento histórico determinado. Vestirse era a menudo una declaración de principios sobre todo en momentos en los cuales no sólo había que ser revolucionario sino también parecerlo. Los cambios discursivos en las coyunturas históricas, para nuestros antepasados, se traducían en un fascinante mundo de formas, textiles y colores puestos al servicio de las ideas políticas. Este libro, sin pretensión de exhaustividad, muestra a partir de la iconografía, los relatos de viajeros y la...