Los devenires de la indumentaria porteña

Dentro de la producción teórica de Ignasi de Solà-Morales, este libro recopila los textos de teoría arquitectónica de los siglos XIX y XX. El libro analiza diferentes orígenes de lo moderno en el siglo XIX, de la tradición francesa del beaux arts, Viollet-le-Duc o John Ruskin, para adentrarse en la teoría del siglo XX sobre la modernidad, de la mano de Walter Benjamin y sus ciudades capitales, la concepción del espacio público en la obra de Le Corbusier, Werner Hegemann y el Arte Cívico, o las contribuciones de historiadores como Sigfried Giedion y Manfredo Tafuri donde se intentan ...

This work analyses the celebrations (programme planning, decoration, processions¿) done because of royal births, marriages or death, as well as those celebrations done because of ecclesiastic arrangements, such as canonisation or beatification.

Barcelona 1992-2004 offers a selection of chronologically arranged projects that provide an overview of the period that commences with the 1992 Olympic Games and culminates in the huge cultural event that is the Universal Forum of Cultures-Barcelona 2004. The selection has focused in particular on projects involving the city’s openness to the sea and those which have managed to adapt to its existing residential fabric. Presented as separate chapters are projects for new high-rise buildings and schemes for the 22@ plan and the Universal Forum of Cultures. The selection is preceded by a text...

Life and work of polemic architect and urbanist Meyer (b. Switzerland), one of the most important functionalists of the 1920's. The former director of the Bauhaus, he worked for the Post-Revolutionary Regimes in Mexico as the director of the Instituto del Urbanismo y Planification from 1942 through 1949, while also becoming the editor of the collective graphic workshop Taller de Grafica Popular (TGP) from 1947 to 1949. Many plates of his architectural designs and the structural diagrams Meyer used for the Bauhaus and in IUP in Mexico.