Arquitectura y percepción

En este segundo volumen de la serie dedicada a la Arqueología de la Construcción se publican las actas del workshop “ I cantieri edili dell’Italia e delle province romane: Italia e province orientali” celebrado en Siena (Certosa di Pontignano, 13-15 de noviembre de 2008). Este workshop es el segundo encuentro de una serie centrada en obras edilicias antiguas, organizada por el Instituto de Arqueología de Mérida, la Universidad de Siena, y l’Ecole Normale de Paris. Este segundo workshop se ha centrado en Roma, Italia y las provincias orientales, continuando con el planteamiento de...

Las ventajas compositivas y constructivas de la fachada ventilada explican su rápida difusión. Emergen ofertas de productos y sistemas desde los orígenes más dispersos del sector. Estos brindan la posibilidad de industrializar el cerramiento y liberar la imagen del edificio. Pero esa diversidad de orígenes e intereses provoca cierta confusión en la síntesis de soluciones.

A study of each phase of the prolific trajectory of architect Pani (b. Mexico). A strong follower of Le Corbusier principles and whose modernist and grand scale urban and construction designs allowed him to construct in Mexico the first international hotel, the first multi family housing complex, the first condominium and the first satellite city. His architectural legacy includes more than 130 projects covering all types of buildings: housing, schools, hospitals, airports, commercial, office and urban, designs. All photographs (black and white 8x10 plaques ) in this catalogue were shot by...

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.