La Plaza Mayor y los orígenes del Madrid barroco

The innovative architectural styles that have emerged from the various climates of Colombian landscape are presented in these insightful essays and spectacular photographs. More than three hundred locations in Colombia fill the three sections divided up by climate zones: hot weather, warm weather, and cold weather. As the creativity of traditional and emerging Colombian architects is revealed, so to is the stunning landscape of a country whose varying climate and indigenous materials—such as guadua, a local bamboo—have influenced Colombian architectural form and content. Las novedosas...

Produced by the government program Pueblos Magicos (Magic Towns) is designed for the sustainable preservation of the cultural and architectural patrimony of 17 traditional and picturesque colonial towns, promoting the tourist attractions and urban benefits of places like: San Cristobal de las Casas, Parras, Comala, Taxco, Real de Catorce, Izamal and Patzcuaro among others.Many exceptional color photographs. .

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...

Las vanguardias de principios del siglo XX encuentran en las exposiciones una oportunidad para experimentar con la relación entre objeto artístico y espacio. Las propuestas expositivas se convierten en verdaderos proyectos arquitectónicos que actúan como laboratorios de ideas en los que interaccionan de forma directa distintas disciplinas artísticas. El espectador juega un papel activo en la percepción del objeto artístico. A partir de su presencia en la exposición, se pueden testar nuevos conceptos espaciales asimilando, en algunos casos de forma explícita, el concepto de espectador ...