Biblioteca Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano

"Después de la exitosa conquista de Tenochtitlán en 1521 por Hernán Cortés y su gavilla de aventureros, nacería la Nueva España. La madre España dominaría este inmenso territorio por trescientos largos años. Tres siglos gobernados por 64 virreyes; [...] haciendo que el tiempo y el progreso se estancaran por décadas en la Colonia, como si nada nuevo e interesante pudiera ocurrir en el inmenso dominio español en América. Hechos relevantes, ocasionados por las beligerantes Francia e Inglaterra en Europa, agitarían las tranquilas aguas de la Nueva España, generando vientos de...

The incredible life story of one of the 20th century's most important designers, who knew everyone from Hemingway to Picasso. Ettore Sottsass and the Poetry of Things chronicles the life and times of one of the most important, prolific, and, above all, interesting designers and architects of the 20th century. Sottsass (1917-2007), originally trained as an architect and worked as a design consultant for Olivetti, where he developed the iconic Valentine typewriter, before going on to found the Memphis Group in the 1980s, ushering in an era of influential designs in furniture, ceramics and...

A set of essays on the modern architecture in the city of Bogota. The articles are the result of the concerns of the authors around the utility of the buildings that make up the history of modern architecture in the country for the understanding of the problems of the contemporary city. The raised arguments include project dimensions, which includes urban, landscape, building and technique.ʺ--Back cover (translated by Karno Books).

"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...