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This number of the monographic series is dedicated to restoration specialist, architect and watercolor painter Villa Chávez (b. Mexico). This extensive study of Villa Chávez life and architecture is divided in 2 parts: the first reviews his academic career and his professional practice in Guadalajara and Colima. A second part reviews in detail his restoration projects, his architecture, his open space interventions and his pictorial production (watercolors and drawings). Amongst other academic contributions Villa Chávez founded the School of Architecture in the University of Colima and was ...

Esta historia inconclusa se inicia en la colonia colonial. Trata del transcurrir de un edificio que nació a partir de un Concurso, y que se intentó destruir mediante otro Concurso. Muestra la evolución de las maneras de pensar la Salud Mental, y formular la Arquitectura concebida a partir de la ideología dominante. Esta es puesta en crisis. A partir de los fracasos genera nuevas propuestas, no siempre propicias. Los recursos destinados a la Salud Mental siempre fueron insuficientes. Vemos las riquezas y miserias de lo realizado, y la creatividad puesta en diversos esfuerzos. Rescatamos la ...

Brief overview of ObregÑn's (b. Mexico) work as one of the most influencial Mexican born architects of the 20th century.

Hospitals and health centers are a unique category of architecture with clearly defined characteristics. Health architecture must offer imaginative, constructive responses and flexible solutions to the problems raised by this special and flexible solutions to the problems raised by this special type of facility: planning, budgets and space as well as the idiosyncrasies arising from each particular field of health. New Health Facilities presents the best examples of health architecture constructed in recent years and each of the architects demonstrates a solid understanding of the need to...