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This series was the winner of the American Institute of Architects' prestigious "Award for Excellence in International Book Publishing". Each volume in this series is introduced with an essay on the architect, and a chronological or stylistic presentation of their most outstanding buildings and projects. No other series provides such a complete and concise summary of the world's leading architects' works. The volumes are fully illustrated in black-and-white with photos and project renderings.

Documents architecture and public space patrimony in Querétaro, Mexico at various intervals from 1531-1981.

Historical-documental biography of architect-engineer Antonio Arróniz Topete (b. Jalisco 1858-1926), "the engineer of red bricks". The book documents his life and work, considered to be of one of the most extensive and complete elaborated at the end of the Porfirio Diaz regime and the first decades of the 20th century in the State of Jalisco. The book studies his architectural legacy, such as the Ex Seminario Mayor de Guadalajara, transformed into the XV Zona Militar and now the Secretaría de Cultura of Jalisco, the Escuela de Artes y Oficios del Espíritu Santo (demolished in 1953), the...

Sobre la condición monumental en el contexto de la arquitectura moderna pareciera que la única constante reside en la disparidad y la fragmentación sobre la cuestión. Este trabajo recopila algunos episodios asociados con aquella arquitectura que respondieron al interés sobre como definir y formalizar ese asunto que -paradójicamente- estaba confinado a las antípodas del paradigma. La idea de lo monumental, la definición de monumentalidad y -más aun- su expresión a través de la arquitectura encendió ́ debates, genero ́ utopías y concreto ́ ciertos espacios que constituyen la...