Monumento a la Madre

An analysis of the subject of the identity that has characterized historically the cultural and urban-architectonic development of the towns of Latin America, the Caribbean and Mexico.

Architectural guide to the city of Guadalajara, with a selection of close to 300 buildings representative of all time periods. The guide is divided in 3 sections: the first, the largest and medullar part of the book is the presentation of the buildings; a second section is an inventory of buildings important in the history of the city but now disappeared, and a third section includes location maps with recommended itineraries and routes. Each entry includes the name, date and brief history of the building and the name of the architect.

A compilation of texts by Professor Julio Arroyo previously presented in different academic meetings make up the present edition centered in public spaces in contemporary cities and the architecture that is concomitant, taking as a study reference the city of Santa Fe. Public spaces are a crucial category of urban life. However, in contemporary cities inconsistencies and contradictions prevail against the ethical postulates that define them -social cohesion, democratic inclusion, free expression, symbolic representation of citizen values- and the phenomena of what is public, dissociated in...

El objeto de la presente publicación responde al deseo de evaluar el edificio primigenio del actual Museo del Prado, es decir, el construido por Juan de Villanueva entre 1785 y 1808; un edificio que se proyectaba junto al recién creado Jardín Botánico para albergar su Laboratorio Químico y, finalmente, para acoger así mismo la Academia de Ciencias y el Gabinete de Historia Natural. Se trataba por tanto de la creación de una institución de carácter científico, por lo que ha sido ineludible el análisis de la situación de las ciencias en el contexto histórico nacional. Villanueva...