Arquitectura y urbanismo en Iberoamérica

A major critical study by noted architect and researcher Ramón Gutiérrez on the different phases of the history and evolution of the architectural patrimony of Paraguay spanning from primitive and colonial times to present days. The book includes a large collection of period photographs and color reproductions of the watercolors of the city of Asuncion done between 1855 and 1856 by French traveler Francisco Vincent of colonial and old Asuncion that graphically document how the original urban profile of Asunción has paid the tribute of the urban development and progress sacrificing its most ...

Se estudian una serie de dibujos originales, ligados al proceso de proyecto y ejecución de diferentes edificios de Sevilla y su provincia en los primeros años del siglo XVII.

The book examines the long, productive and stormy relationship architect Le Corbusier had with Argentina and the series of events in consequence. His Argentinean disciples Jorge Ferrari Hardoy, Juan Kurchan and Antonio Bonet, although influenced by the master architect had their own architectonic and urban ideas. The book examines the "Austral Net" created towards the productive, plural and complex relationship of these 4 personages where the central figure is the famed Swiss architect. The book is chronologically organized and includes a selection of the most important architecture...

The publication presents the last four years of research academic projects as well as architectural, landscape, urban development and industrial design projects developed by students and teachers from the Coordinación de Vinculación y Proyectos Especiales of the Faculty of Architecture of the UNAM. The catalogue comprises detail information of 21 projects.

A partir de 1950 se presentó un fenómeno de urbanización acelerada de las ciudades, y que fue motivado por la industrialización, los problemas de violencia, desigualdad social y omisión política. Trajo consigo una serie de conflictos sociales, económicos y ambientales que desembocaron en problemas de insostenibilidad, crecimiento desmedido y desorganizado, deforestación y uso indiscriminado de ecosistemas, contaminación, sobrepoblación, entre otros. La teoría de las mallas urbanas desplazadas es la respuesta que genera el siglo xxi a estas problemáticas que el siglo xx dejó tras...