1930-1950: arquitectura moderna en Buenos Aires

A study of Bogota viewed as a museum (outside of the traditional museum). This work offers a critical look at modern city through a series of tours through downtown Bogotá, specifically on Seventh Avenue between Calles 11 and 16 that was transformed from Bogotazo through an urban renewal project. It turned the area into a paradigm of what should be a modern Bogotá. The book discusses the aesthetic character of its architecture, the connections between traditional museums, and reaffirmed the principles of order and functionality of the modern movement and led to rules that have sought...

Visiting an exhibition by Leonardo Nierman is penetrating a space that invites us to dream in infinities, to discover exteriors and interiors of cosmic worlds. The exhibition Genesis de un Sueno (Genesis of a Dream) mounted at the Contemporary University Museum of Art in Mexico City conveyed such sensations to visitors. Running from May through August of 1996, it featured three hundred of Nierman's works spanning forty years and was reinstalled by popular demand through January 1997. Its beauty and mystery are now captured in this elegant volume. Nierman: Genesis de un Sueno is a celebration...

"Major survey of Ibero-American 21st century architects details the work of 40 architects"--Provided by vendor.

El estudio del confort de las circulaciones peatonales en los litorales costeros es un tema de vital importancia, donde el viandante tiene el contacto con la naturaleza, se puede relajar y disfrutar el aire libre. Este libro presenta la evolución histórica de las sendas a través del tiempo, nos proporciona los pasos a seguir para estudiar bioclimáticamente los elementos que la componen en un clima templado como el de Barcelona; selecciona las tipologías y las caracteriza de acuerdo a sus límites verticales y horizontales; describe como el viento, la radiación solar, la humedad y la...