Los nuevos principios del urbanismo

The author describes and discusses the influence Le Corbusier in Uruguay through a series of trips, the first done by the Swiss-French architect in 1929, and the remaining ones from the three Uruguayan architects who joined the workshop of the notable architect: Carlos Gómez Gavazzo, in 1933, Justino Serralta, in 1948, and Carlos Clémot, in 1949. The study also includes aspects of Antonio Bonet Castellana's trip, who was there in 1937 and in Uruguay from 1945 to 1948, and additionally analyzes what Eladio Dieste learned from his "Le Courvoisier partners" Serralta and Clémot as well as the...

This series was the winner of the American Institute of Architects' prestigious "Award for Excellence in International Book Publishing". Each volume in this series is introduced with an essay on the architect, and a chronological or stylistic presentation of their most outstanding buildings and projects. No other series provides such a complete and concise summary of the world's leading architects' works. The volumes are fully illustrated in black-and-white with photos and project renderings.

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style and accomplishments written by a leading architecture critic. Then, approximately twenty noteworthy works and projects are discussed by the architect and presented in detail with site plans, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.

Los siguientes textos (que, sin embargo, para que se pueda ver la progresión formal y de orientación de las investigaciones, dejamos en el orden histórico de su creación, por ende de afinidad temática) se dividen en tres grandes bloques: Uno (artículos 2-5, 11-12, 18-22, 24) de teorización sobre qué son la Arquitectura, sus motivos y sus extensiones (a nivel tanto intrínseco, como es el caso de los jardines, como extrínseco, como es el Urbanismo);Un segundo (artículos 6-10) de Historia General de la Arquitectura y el Urbanismo;Un tercero (artículos 13-17, 23, 25) sobre problemas...