Carlos Obregón Santacilia

Les noms de Paul Guinard et de Marcel Durliat suffisent à prouver la tradition ancienne liant l'Université de Toulouse-le Mirail à la production artistique espagnole. En 2007, le département d'histoire de l'art de cette université, avec le soutien de la Casa de Velâzquez, a initié un cycle de trois journées d'études sur le thème des échanges artistiques entre la France et l'Espagne. Rassemblant des universitaires et des doctorants, elles ont successivement portées sur l'architecture (novembre 2007), la sculpture (mars 2009) et la peinture (mai 2010). Le présent recueil, qui...

The Design of the home continues to be of great interest to both architects and designers. How to configure a living space according to the characteristics of a site and the specification of the client is still the starting point of any house project. However, the final solutions can be as diverse as they can be interesting. This publication takes a specific look at the way architecture will evolve when regarding inhabitations around the world due to climatic changes and different cultural expectations.

Hospitals and health centers are a unique category of architecture with clearly defined characteristics. Health architecture must offer imaginative, constructive responses and flexible solutions to the problems raised by this special and flexible solutions to the problems raised by this special type of facility: planning, budgets and space as well as the idiosyncrasies arising from each particular field of health. New Health Facilities presents the best examples of health architecture constructed in recent years and each of the architects demonstrates a solid understanding of the need to...

''El edificio del Departamento de Salubridad, sede de la actual Secretaría de Salud, es una obra arquitectónica que data de 1929. Inaugurada el 20 de noviembre de ese año y realizada por el gran arquitecto Carlos Obregón Santacilia (también autor, entre muchos otros, del Banco de México y el monumento a la Revolución), esta pieza es fruto de la Revolución mexicana y síntesis del anhelo de los artistas nacionales por crear una arquitectura mexicana moderna. La construcción combina un estilo lineal sobrio con adornos en art decó y obra plástica (murales, relieves, esculturas) de...