Paulo Mendes Da Rocha

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...

"The book examines the life and architectonic and didactic legacy of noted architect O'Gorman (b. Mexico) with critical texts by expert scholars regarding some of his ideas on the aesthetics of architecture with a special emphasis in public primary schools. Includes a reprint of the booklet titled "Escuelas Primarias 1932" by O'Gorman as a report while working for the Mexican Ministry of Education (SEP) of the construction of 28 public primary schools in Mexico City."--Provided by vendor.

Cinco ensayos sobre la ciudad contemporánea, sus problemas, su definición, la evolución reciente de las periferias urbanas. Reflexiones geográficas apoyadas en textos literarios, entre los cuales los de Borges no son los menores. Ilustrado con grabados de Piranesi. Índice: Presentación.- Borges y la geografía del siglo XXI.- La definición de lo urbano. La geografía y las periferias urbanas. Reflexiones para arquitectos.- Gritos amargos sobre la ciudad.- Dibujar el mundo.

"La mayoría de las ciudades andinas del Perú comparten un deplorable rasgo común: los ríos que las recorren —antes fuentes de agua limpia y factor primordial de la identidad paisajística del lugar— se han convertido en desagües abiertos y el destino de todos los desperdicios de la ciudad. El agua y los ríos están en pleno proceso de inanición. Situación que se agrava aún más por la progresiva desaparición de las fuentes hídricas altoandinas por efecto de la minería informal y el cambio climático. Si a ello se suma el descontrolado crecimiento urbano, cuya voracidad no...

The transformation of public space in Mexico City through the years are evident, the population growth and its demands has resulted in a complex network of resources necessary for the coexistence and development in the city. Just to illustrate this phenomenon from one Delegation, Coyoacán, to size the number of factors that shaped the urban environment of this century. To further explore the topic, the study is divided into three distinct areas of the delegation and is exemplified in the history of the creation of these spaces through maps and graphs that they add images and allowing the...