Los devenires de la indumentaria porteña

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...

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 ...

The book is an historic and graphical account of the patios of "vecindad" (neighbourhood) in the port city of Veracruz, in a period that goes from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century. The foreword of this edition, states that the first record of a patio of a "vecindad" dates back to 1791, highlighting that those patios have seen the early years of musician and singer "Toña la Negra" and were the place of origin of the famous "picadas" from Veracruz, one of the most popular snacks of the jarocha traditional cuisine.

La irrupción en Bogotá de la carrera Décima, a mediados del siglo XX, fue, además de un paliativo para la movilidad del centro de la ciudad, un hecho simbólico de la historia de la Capital: representó el ingreso de Bogotá a la modernidad, con la adopción de patrones arquitectónicos de vanguardia –que rompían con la hegemónica mezcla de los estilos colonial y republicano– y la existencia de una élite comercial y profesional que, escapando del nebuloso panorama político que vivía el país, promovió proyectos de desarrollo para la urbe como la avenida en cuestión. La carrera...