Patios de juego: Seguridad

Este libro reúne una serie de textos en los que abordan dos nociones; el paisaje y lo intersticial. El abordaje que se procura parte de una búsqueda teórica alrededor de la arquitectura y el urbanismo, cuestionando los derroteros que se han trazado para darle sentido a nuestro quehacer ante los vacíos y las ruinas en la ciudad. Esta exploración intenta, en parte, desafiar algunos lindes, acercándose a otros ámbitos como las artes plásticas o el cine. Asimismo, en la aproximación teórica se intenta colocar -entre líneas- algunas inquietudes de corte epistemológico, invitando a que, ...

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.

Reference honoring the cultural and architecture legacy of Daz Morales (b. Mexico) in the centenary of his birth. The present catalogue complements the book "Ignacio Diaz, su pensamiento" and is the result of an exhaustive research in the archive of the Diaz Morales family, examining a large number of documents and selecting for this publication the most representative. The drawings, documents, photographs, plans and elevations of each project are chronologically organized and represent the 7 decades of designs and architectural projects by the noted architect.

This book revolves around the drawings and scale models especially selected by architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha, who was conferred the degree of Doctorate Honoris Causa by the Universidad Nacional del Litoral in 2009. The personal selection done by PMdR resulted in a publishing project that included the participation of a group of academics from Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina convened so that, by means of short texts, freely elaborated their perspective on those drawings. The book is, therefore, the result of a collective work whose purpose is to think the architecture from its most common...