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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...

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...

Centrado en la génesis, el diseño, la construcción y el presente de la arquitectura que acoge el Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, el libro recorre setenta años de la historia Vitoria, desde los primeros impulsos de la estación de autobuses a principios de los años 30 del siglo pasado hasta la intensa actividad del centro-museo actual.

The remarkably prolific career of an innovative young Chilean architect is profiled in this engaging study. Born in 1965 and in professional practice since 1991, this architect's impact on his native landscape is observed mainly in a series of private houses located in some of the most sublime sites in Chile. The forceful yet austere character of his design approach and its radical relationship to surrounding landscape elements can be fully appreciated by viewing this book's fine pictorial panorama.