Treinta hombres que hicieron Madrid (1750-1950)

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.

"Critical study and research of the life and architecture of Urzúa (b. Mexico) who along architects Luis Barragán and Ignacio Díaz Morales started the localartistic movement known as "regionalismo" in Guadalajara. The edition is divided in 3 sections: his life, closely related to his architecture, an illustrated catalogue of his life production and acollection of facsimile copies of documents from his personal archives"--Provided by vendor.

In this work, which is based on heritage architecture and cultural studies, the relationship between communities and habitat is studied to understand their way of conceiving and inhabiting the urban territory. The author participation in the Plan Especial de Manejo y Protección (PEMP) of the set of architectural assets of Republican architecture of Quibdó led her to question the handling of historical centers containing declared architectural assets in the country. The stories made invisible or denied by hegemonic heritage perspectives "were the route charted within the framework of the PhD ...

Desde los origenes mismos de la civilizacion, se ha venido asociando el mundo de las abejas con todo tipo de virtudes. La colmena ha sido modelo de sociedad ideal y sus productos basicos (cera y miel) han servido como soporte de numerosas metaforas positivas. Pero las abejas elaboran ademas una arquitectura natural de gran perfeccion: los panales que se alojan en un B+edificioB; con una estructura determinada. Juan Antonio Ramirez demuestra que esto influyo considerablemente en los arquitectos y artistas que dieron origen al Movimiento Moderno. Los modelos de colmenas tradicionales, junto con ...