Monumento a la Madre

Desde la fecha de su primera edición en París en 1804, el tratado de arquitectura de Claude Nicolas Ledoux sigue siendo una obra de referencia. Estableciendo una compleja relación entre texto e imagen, literatura y arquitectura, el autor logró hacer de su tratado una verdadera autobiografía arquitectónica que ilustra, al mismo tiempo, ese profundo cambio producido entre la arquitectura del antiguo régimen y las necesidades funcionales, tecnológicas y sociales que la Revolución industrial estaba ya imprimiendo. La edición que ahora presentamos -primera en castellano- con inclusión...

Este livro revela que o design encontra-se pautado pelo binômio estética-funcionalidade. Revela que, independentemente do tamanho das divisões, os conceitos reinantes são o equilíbrio e a harmonia.

Whether we live in a house in the country or in a city home, a terrace is an increasingly cherished luxury that opens living space out to the exterior and creates more direct contact with nature. Spectacular and of varied design, some are on the roofs, some are fitted with a solarium, while others boast a garden. Over the course of 136 pages and with more than 140 spectacular photos in colour, Terrace Design offers a complete selection of terraces set in the country, by the sea and in the city. An original compilation that will inspire a new terrace or refurbishment and that offers valuable...

Life and work of polemic architect and urbanist Meyer (b. Switzerland), one of the most important functionalists of the 1920's. The former director of the Bauhaus, he worked for the Post-Revolutionary Regimes in Mexico as the director of the Instituto del Urbanismo y Planification from 1942 through 1949, while also becoming the editor of the collective graphic workshop Taller de Grafica Popular (TGP) from 1947 to 1949. Many plates of his architectural designs and the structural diagrams Meyer used for the Bauhaus and in IUP in Mexico.