Diseño con sentido

libro evidencia un ejercicio académico de revisión de literatura y teoría, para luego llevar a los investigadores al terreno a observar y analizar, y volver a la propuesta aplicada a un caso puntual para transformar una zona específica de una ciudad es un espacio legible e inteligible. Se puede afirmar, entonces, que se trata de un trabajo teórico-práctico-teórico con un objetivo propositivo que busca acciones concretas de transformación del espacio urbano de Cali.

Historical-documental biography of architect-engineer Antonio Arróniz Topete (b. Jalisco 1858-1926), "the engineer of red bricks". The book documents his life and work, considered to be of one of the most extensive and complete elaborated at the end of the Porfirio Diaz regime and the first decades of the 20th century in the State of Jalisco. The book studies his architectural legacy, such as the Ex Seminario Mayor de Guadalajara, transformed into the XV Zona Militar and now the Secretaría de Cultura of Jalisco, the Escuela de Artes y Oficios del Espíritu Santo (demolished in 1953), the...

El presente manual está destinado fundamentalmente a los estudiantes de arquitectura, y por extensión a profesionales y técnicos del área del diseño y la construcción de edificios, aportando sugerencias proyectuales y metodologías de simulación y verificación, que facilitan la determinación de pautas y estrategias para el diseño bioclimático y la utilización de energías no convencionales en los edificios y su habitat. Contiene un cd-rom con un paquete de 26 programas informáticos.

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.

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...