Mal de proyecto. Precauciones para archivar el futuro

La huella de la historia está representada por el patrimonio que cada generación recibe como presente. Es un presente transmitido a través de una transacción que no está condicionada por ningún principio basado sobre reglas del mercado económico. En cambio, el concepto está atado estrechamente al tema de la identificación de la herencia. Ciertamente, tal identificación tiene en sí misma un valor jurídico, pero posee, ante todo, un sentido moral que debe ser valorado y reconocido dentro de las infinitas diferencias culturales que es posible hallar, no solo entre muchas áreas...

Study characterized for the use of new research methods to create an alternative historiography of modern Mexican architecture. Through a self-critical review of the first edition, author De Anda clarifies, broadens and when needed corrects certain concepts and perspectives in relation to his original 1991 edition of "Architecture of the Mexican Revolution". He then provides recent advances in the way of interpreting the history of architecture and the history of Mexican culture in the 20th century.

- Martin Parr (b.1952) is one of the best-known and most influential British photographers working today, acclaimed for his frank chronicling of life and society - This introductory monograph charts Parr's entire career including early black and white photographs, unpublished images made over the last five years, and works from all his major projects, including The Last Resort and Think of England - Parr is a prolific book-maker and collector, as well as a long-standing member of the Magnum Photos agency. This new title is an affordable companion to his other Phaidon publications which...

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.