La impronta del ladrillo

This comprehensive round-up features the many door and window types available today, including the most recent technical advances and design trends, with a focus on innovative materials, styles and shapes.

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.

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.

Si hubiésemos de resaltar una característica definitoria del tratado compuesto por el paduano Andrea Palladio (1508-1580), universalmente conocido por sus grandes arquitecturas religiosas y, sobre todo, divieles que todavía hoy embellecen las ciudades del Véneto, ésta sería sin duda la de su pragmatismo clasicista. En contraposición al neoplatonismo del Quattrocento, su afán aristotélico por ceñirse a la realidad le llevó a primar el ideal clásico como supremo reflejo de un modo civil de vida. En palabras de Javier Rivera, historiador y teórico y autor de numerosos estudios sobre ...