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 ...

"No historical European city looks as modern as Berlin. Renovating and changing constantly, in the last one hundred years a notion of modernity in architecture peculiar to Berlin has developed in the German capital. In light of the multitude of meanings this term can have the present volume shows a broad spectrum of Modernism with its technical and constructive as well as formal and aesthetic innovations in the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century, marked by the great names of architecture, from Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe to Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid. Berlin...

"CEDODAL in collaboration with the Estrada family organized an exhibition and the present accompanying book that examines the life and professional career of Argentinean architect Estrada. The book gathers various authors who review in their texts the influence German architect Hermann Jansen had over the young Estrada, his integration to the National Forests project (1934) and his legacy in the planning of urban centers, infrastructure works and tourism and hotel architecture particularly in the Patagonian region. Estrada's culmination was the Civic Center of Bariloche, (today historic and...

Para cumplir con los requisitos que la actualidad económica y social exige, tanto en el diseño industrial de productos como en su producción, es necesario contar con métodos que consideren conceptos ergonómicos, que faciliten el tratamiento en forma integral de los distintos factores que intervienen en las creaciones amigables de la interface producto-usuario, la configuración de los sistemas socio-productivos, las limitaciones tecnológicas, el medio ambiente, la prevención de la salud, el mantenimiento, la gestión del conocimiento, la calidad y la rentabilidad del sistema...

El presente libro resulta de la compilación de diez artículos elaborados por un equipo de investigación que viene trabajando junto a "otros actores anónimos", hace más de un lustro, revalorizando esa "otredad". Representa, en algún sentido, un marco teórico a partir de posicionamientos, tanto ideológicos como axiológicos, que el grupo de autores y los "otros" han ido adoptando en sus recorridos tanto investigativos como de la vida cotidiana generando, madura y comprometidamente, un sólido camino hacia abordajes epistemológicos alternativos junto a sus correlatos metodológicos, tal ...