Oaxaca y Tasco

Revealing the pleasure of contemplation, a well-known aesthetic professor journeys to the four corners of the earth, admiring the arts, architecture, and the people.

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.

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 ...

Radicado en Nueva York, Peter Eisenman es una de las figuras más destacadas de la arquitectura del periodo de posguerra en el ámbito internacional. Con sus extensos escritos teóricos y sus proyectos constructivos en Estados Unidos, Japón, España y Alemania, no sólo ha influido en generaciones de arquitectos y educadores, sino que ha preparado el camino a la actual vanguardia digital. El presente libro es el primer volumen que ofrece un panorama completo de los edificios y proyectos realizados por Eisenman, desde su primera obra, Casa I (1960), hasta sus más recientes trabajos a gran...