Max Henonin

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.

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.

A los cincuenta años de la concepción de Brasilia proponemos, a través de esta publicción, abrir una refleción de base cultural, social y urbanística que analice la evolución urbana de la ciudad capital de Brasil. Este debate tembién nos sirve de base para el estudio de la realidad sociocultural de la ciudadanía actual, tanto para el caso específico de Brasilia, como para otras urbes contemporáneas.

Este libro desarrolla una investigación sobre los orígenes de la idea de hacer un palacio de justicia, sobre la elección del arquitecto, su idea de proyecto, sus características comunes con otros palacios de justicia, su construcción y sus símbolos.