Nuevas miradas y exploraciones urbanas. Zaragoza 1968-2018

Exaltar la labor de arquitectos y firmas de arquitectura que han contribuido al desarrollo de Bogotá, es la finalidad de la serie Homenajes / Arquitectos en Bogotá, una colección editorial de trabajos monográficos acerca de las más significativas figuras de la cultura arquitectónica de la capital. Este primer volumen, dedicado a Alberto Manrique Martín da muestra clara de las intenciones de la colección: ediciones muy bien cuidadas, rigurosas en la investigación y atractivas en la presentación, con contenidos ricos en ilustraciones –planos y fotografías– y una abundancia de...

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.

A detailed study on the architecture and the life of British engineer and architect Reed who left an extraordinary legacy of neoclassic architecture in Colombia and in other regions of Latin America. Reed designed and constructed the Capitolio Nacional and the Museo Nacional in Colombia along other public buildings, theaters as well as other constructions in Ecuador and Venezuela between 1843 and 1878.

As part of the celebration of the Symposium "Shell and Spatial Structures: New Materials and Technologies, New Designs and Innovations -- A Sustainable Approach to Architectural and Structural Design" of the International Association of Special Structures (IASS-SLTE) held October 23-31, 2008 in Acapulco, the Faculty of Architecture of the UNAM developed 3 projects specifically for the occasion: 1) An exhibition of representative scale models of the "golden age" (1950-1975) of the construction of reinforced concrete shells in Mexico; 2) A documentary featuring the characteristics and evolution ...