Monumento a la Madre

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...

Este trabajo ha sido preparado íntegramente en la Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano. La base principal del texto la constituye la experiencia acumulada de muchos años como profesor y conferencista de temas de Historia y Teoría de la Arquitectura en varias universidades colombianas y latinoamericanas. La investigación que permitió configurar el contenido del libro se desarrolló en 2008 y contó con la participación, como asistente, del arquitecto Santiago Paredes Cisneros, Magíster en Historia y Teoría del Arte, la Ciudad y la Arquitectura. El arquitecto Lorenzo Fonseca Martínez,...

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.

La actualidad e interés de cuanto este libro plantea quedaría demostrada con solo llevar a cabo una visión retrospectiva de algunos aspectos del desarrollo de la restauración en nuestro país.