Luis Restrepo

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.

Desde los origenes de la humanidad, la arquitectura ha cumplido como primera funcion la proteccion contra los elementos atmosfericos. Los edificios son barreras contra la lluvia, el viento, refugios contra el frio o filtros contra el calor o la luz. Este libro pretende estudiar la variedad y complejidad de situaciones climaticas en todo el planeta. Ante cualquier condicion climatica, lo que la arquitectura pretende siempre es conseguir cierto grado de confortabilidad. La consecucion de cierto nivel de bienestar resulta, en la practica, un fenomeno complejo en la que intervienen numerosos...

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...

"Critical study and research of the life and architecture of Urzúa (b. Mexico) who along architects Luis Barragán and Ignacio Díaz Morales started the localartistic movement known as "regionalismo" in Guadalajara. The edition is divided in 3 sections: his life, closely related to his architecture, an illustrated catalogue of his life production and acollection of facsimile copies of documents from his personal archives"--Provided by vendor.