Arquitectura y ciudad

Revealing the pleasure of contemplation, a well-known aesthetic professor journeys to the four corners of the earth, admiring the arts, architecture, and the people.

Los dispositivos de la arquitectura y la obturación procedimental que sufre el proyecto contemporáneo representan un problema para la construcción de novedad y la formulación de configuraciones habitativas contemporáneas. El libro explora las posibilidades proyectivas de los procesos arquitectónicos maquínicos y sus emergencias como alternativas a los procedimientos configuradores de la arquitectura convencional. El proyecto se organiza en seis dispositivos proyectuales, por medio de los cuales, se construye un proyecto de vivienda colectiva que propone nuevos modos de apropiación de...

The author describes and discusses the influence Le Corbusier in Uruguay through a series of trips, the first done by the Swiss-French architect in 1929, and the remaining ones from the three Uruguayan architects who joined the workshop of the notable architect: Carlos Gómez Gavazzo, in 1933, Justino Serralta, in 1948, and Carlos Clémot, in 1949. The study also includes aspects of Antonio Bonet Castellana's trip, who was there in 1937 and in Uruguay from 1945 to 1948, and additionally analyzes what Eladio Dieste learned from his "Le Courvoisier partners" Serralta and Clémot as well as the...

A collection of articles from experts in different fields on Valencian architecture from the medieval to modern era, focusing on vaulted systems, and based on the idea that architecture begins with the conception of an idea and ends with the disappearance of the architectural work. This book seeks to combine the history of architecture with an investigation into distinct architectural forms of expression and representation.