Metrópolis incompletas

El resurgimiento de la utilización no destructiva de recursos renovables para la construcción de viviendas responde al objetivo prioritario del mundo actual para "edificar un futuro sostenido y sustentable". Al poner al alcance de los habitantes de habla hispana, los procedimientos e ingeniosas soluciones planteadas en el texto, la adaptadora desea contribuir con los autores de Build it with Bales, Steve MacDonald y Matts Myhrman, en la divulgación de este exitoso y antiguo sistema constructivo, que logra, día a día, una progresiva incorporación de adeptos por la posibilidad de...

El libro constituye un buen resumen de un debate entablado a lo largo del siglo xix y, fundamentalmente, el siglo xx. La relación entre interior y exterior, la verdad o falsedad del ornamento, la calidad estructural de las fachadas... Un debate capital en la Historia de la Arquitectura Contemporánea, que los autores estudian y analizan en la obra de algunos grandes arquitectos de estos dos siglos: Loos, Wrigst, Wagner, Hoffmann, Mies o Le Corbusier, entre otros.

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...

Visiting an exhibition by Leonardo Nierman is penetrating a space that invites us to dream in infinities, to discover exteriors and interiors of cosmic worlds. The exhibition Genesis de un Sueno (Genesis of a Dream) mounted at the Contemporary University Museum of Art in Mexico City conveyed such sensations to visitors. Running from May through August of 1996, it featured three hundred of Nierman's works spanning forty years and was reinstalled by popular demand through January 1997. Its beauty and mystery are now captured in this elegant volume. Nierman: Genesis de un Sueno is a celebration...