Arquitectura y ciudad

A biographic study of the life and work of English-born Luis Long, who arrived in Mexico in 1873 and lived in León until his death in 1927, recognized as one of the most important architects of his era.

Se intenta aquí desarrollar ideas que faciliten la comprensión de la contemporaneidad del historicismo arquitectónico con su tiempo. Lo que no apunta a una justificación, a un elogio o a una disculpa. Sólo se busca comprender un acto aparentemente desatinado. A pesar de sus ganas de revivir el pasado, el "juramento de los Horacios" seguirá siendo una pintura de fines del siglo XVIII y la iglesia de La Madelaine, un templo típico de principios del 1900. Ninguno de los dos será romano o griego según las preferencias de sus autores. Este ensayo intenta, no sin temeridad, arrimar...

Having graduated from Cornell University, Richard Meier established his own architectural firm in New York City in 1963, around a group known as the "Five Architects" of New York. This book includes 70 works and projects, chronologically ordered, from his first private houses around New York, to the most recent cultural centres, museums, corporate buildings and city planning for different cities in Europe, Asia and USA. This book, abundantly illustrated and documented, offers a chronological survey, from the first houses in the Hamptons to the most recent buildings including the Getty Center...

Architectural guide to the city of Guadalajara, with a selection of close to 300 buildings representative of all time periods. The guide is divided in 3 sections: the first, the largest and medullar part of the book is the presentation of the buildings; a second section is an inventory of buildings important in the history of the city but now disappeared, and a third section includes location maps with recommended itineraries and routes. Each entry includes the name, date and brief history of the building and the name of the architect.