Alejo Martínez. La experiencia moderna en la Argentina

Este libro analiza las relaciones entre niveles de gobierno; entre entidades territoriales locales y entre el sector público y privado en el proceso de gestión de tres Sistemas Integrados de Transporte Masivo en áreas metropolitanas o conturbaciones de Colombia. Se realiza un análisis comparado de tres casos de estudio: Transmilenio (Bogotá-Soacha), Megabús (Área Metropolitana de Centro Occidente), y Transmetro (Área Metropolitana de Barranquilla). Se reseña los retos de la planificación y gestión del transporte (y en general de los grandes proyectos urbanos) en la escala...

The present edition publishes part of the research papers presented during the "Seminario de Investigación Arquitectura para la Producción" organized by the university of Michoacán between 2001 and 2002 that included the participation of national and international academics. The book gathers 23 collective and individual multidisciplinary works that examine from various perspectives the history of architecture in rural areas. Works are mainly focused in the colonial territory of the ex-bishopry of Michoacán divided in 4 main topics: Space, settlements, technology and environment and...

Features a selection examining houses that have broken away from the past and that define today's innovation and tomorrow's classicism. The book does not aim to convert these houses into prototypes to follow; they are included because they reflect the peculiarities of their era, sites and owners.

The expert contributors to this lavishly illustrated volume, devoted entirely to Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion of 1929, address here for the first time the forgotten contexts of the Pavilion's genesis. Habitually thought of as an abstract, unpolluted, and splendidly isolated building--a precursor of Mies's American period--the Pavilion is revealed here as a thoroughly European work, perhaps less pristine but more authentic. Mies and Lilly Reich were commissioned to design not only the Pavilion but also more than one hundred thousand square feet of German stands spread throughout the...