TEORIAS PROYECTIVAS. Textos y Proyectos de Reflexión en Arquitectura

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.

City and Architecture, Six generations who built up the modern Latin America comes from the architecture and urban planning history developed in the Latin-American area between 1885 and 1975. This is an organized work from a method called by the author generational, which covers 90 years (six generations). The names of those generations, that each one of them covers a period of 15 years, are gathered together in the chapters names of the book. The exposition of the context of each historic period is connected with the analysis of the architecture work, which offers a wide outlook of the...

Se cumplen 500 años de la caída de México (Tenochtitlán) y 200 años de la independencia de México Colón, Cortés, Pizarro.... fueron glorificados como aventureros heroicos que evangelizaron y construyeron un imperio como nunca se había visto. Hoy son condenados por su afán de riqueza y por masacrar a los aztecas y los incas. Basándose en fuentes primarias hasta ahora inexploradas, como diarios, cartas, crónicas y tratados polémicos, Fernando Cervantes replantea la historia de la conquista española del Nuevo Mundo, dentro del contexto político e intelectual del que surgieron sus...

Reference honoring the cultural and architecture legacy of Daz Morales (b. Mexico) in the centenary of his birth. The present catalogue complements the book "Ignacio Diaz, su pensamiento" and is the result of an exhaustive research in the archive of the Diaz Morales family, examining a large number of documents and selecting for this publication the most representative. The drawings, documents, photographs, plans and elevations of each project are chronologically organized and represent the 7 decades of designs and architectural projects by the noted architect.