LA FACHADA INFINITA

En el año 1910 se inauguraba el primer conjunto de viviendas de interés social realizado con fondos públicos en la Argentina: el barrio Butteler. Desde entonces han transcurrido 100 años y sin embargo la tecnología hoy empleada en la construcción de las VIS ha variado muy poco,distanciándose así de los avances de las ciencias que ha caracterizado al siglo pasado y que se han multiplicado en el nuevo siglo. En ese rezago tecnológico han incidido factores que pocas veces fueron puestos de manifiesto en su verdadera magnitud ni tenidos en cuenta en los análisis de esa problemática....

El libro analiza y clarifica un tema hasta ahora un poco estudiado: el jardín como obra de arquitectura durante el Renacimiento italiano. Se acompaña de abundante material gráfico (más de 200 ilustraciones) y un índice de nombres.

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 ...