Las bóvedas de Guastavino en América

City and Architecture, Six generations who built up the modern Latin America comes from the architecture and urban planning history developed in the Latin-American area between 1885 and 1975. This is an organized work from a method called by the author generational, which covers 90 years (six generations). The names of those generations, that each one of them covers a period of 15 years, are gathered together in the chapters names of the book. The exposition of the context of each historic period is connected with the analysis of the architecture work, which offers a wide outlook of the...

Este livro revela que o design encontra-se pautado pelo binômio estética-funcionalidade. Revela que, independentemente do tamanho das divisões, os conceitos reinantes são o equilíbrio e a harmonia.

El ensayo de Fritz Neumeyer es una verdadera biografía intelectual de Mies, en la que se va identificando la secuencia de lecturas e influencias determinantes en la formación de Mies: Nietzsche, Behrens, Riehl, Spranger, Berlage, Franzé, Guardini, Jaeger ..., Neumeyer entrecruza estas lecturas con la obra arquitectónica y teórica de Mies, ofreciendo el tejido vivo de la actividad y pensamiento de uno de los maestros de la arquitectura moderna. Se publican en apéndice los diarios de Mies, textos de conferencias suyas, cartas y ensayos inéditos, junto con los manifiestos más conocidos....

Reference honoring the cultural and architecture legacy of Daz Morales (b. Mexico) in the centenary of his birth. The present catalogue complements the book "Ignacio Diaz, su pensamiento" and is the result of an exhaustive research in the archive of the Diaz Morales family, examining a large number of documents and selecting for this publication the most representative. The drawings, documents, photographs, plans and elevations of each project are chronologically organized and represent the 7 decades of designs and architectural projects by the noted architect.