Los devenires de la indumentaria porteña

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.

La arquitectura se ha interrelacionado con el arte a lo largo de su historia no sólo con las edificaciones, la manifestación física de las formas constructivas, sino también mediante su expresión gráfica. Sin embargo, en el último siglo la arquitectura ha penetrado profundamente tanto en la vida cotidiana como en el arte, y todo el arco conceptual existente entre ellos se ha «arquitecturizado». Es decir, la arquitectura no sólo se ha conformado en tanto que aliado de una serie de «políticas estatales de sujeción», sino también como una «materia prima» fundamental para...

The remarkably prolific career of an innovative young Chilean architect is profiled in this engaging study. Born in 1965 and in professional practice since 1991, this architect's impact on his native landscape is observed mainly in a series of private houses located in some of the most sublime sites in Chile. The forceful yet austere character of his design approach and its radical relationship to surrounding landscape elements can be fully appreciated by viewing this book's fine pictorial panorama.

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...