Inquietud teórica y estrategia proyectual en la obra de ocho arquitectos contemporáneos

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...

The book examines the long, productive and stormy relationship architect Le Corbusier had with Argentina and the series of events in consequence. His Argentinean disciples Jorge Ferrari Hardoy, Juan Kurchan and Antonio Bonet, although influenced by the master architect had their own architectonic and urban ideas. The book examines the "Austral Net" created towards the productive, plural and complex relationship of these 4 personages where the central figure is the famed Swiss architect. The book is chronologically organized and includes a selection of the most important architecture...

Basada en anotaciones escritas desde 1971, la memoria de Aldo Rossi, su Autobiografia cientifica, "constituye, mas que una simple autobiografia o un abstracto texto teorico, un documento de imaginacion arquitectonica. Su gran interes y su especial encanto esta, sobre todo, en el dialogo que el autor establece con su propio pasado y con su trabajo, en la forma en que Rossi deja vagar libremente a sus pensamientos entre recuerdos infantiles y observaciones filosoficas acerca de la arquitectura. Repleta de recuerdos y cavilaciones sobre la arquitectura y su ensenanza, la Autobiografia se revela, ...

Brief overview of ObregÑn's (b. Mexico) work as one of the most influencial Mexican born architects of the 20th century.