Casas internacional 183: Extremadura

un libro editado por Diseño Editorial y dirigido por Mario Sabugo con textos de Raúl Horacio Campodónico, Horacio Caride Bartrons, Beatriz García Moreno, Rodolfo Giunta, Mario Sabugo, Maximiliano Salomón, Gabriela Sorda, Ileana Versace y Johanna Zimmerman. Se trata de nuevas contribuciones a una teoría de los imaginarios del habitar, sus aplicaciones y las diferentes contraposiciones de las significaciones instituidas y las significaciones alternativas en lo referente a la ciudad, la arquitectura y los diversos sistemas de acciones, ambientes y objetos del habitar.

This number of the monographic series is dedicated to restoration specialist, architect and watercolor painter Villa Chávez (b. Mexico). This extensive study of Villa Chávez life and architecture is divided in 2 parts: the first reviews his academic career and his professional practice in Guadalajara and Colima. A second part reviews in detail his restoration projects, his architecture, his open space interventions and his pictorial production (watercolors and drawings). Amongst other academic contributions Villa Chávez founded the School of Architecture in the University of Colima and was ...

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...

El tratado de arquitectura de Marco Vitruvio Polión, el único entre los producidos por la civilización grecorromana que ha llegado completo hasta nosotros, es un examen sistemático de todos los aspectos que debe conocer quien desee construir -lugar adecuado, materiales que hay que emplear, tipos de edificios, órdenes, ornamentos y máquinas variadas-, y recoge, asimismo, otras muchas consideraciones astronómicas y matemáticas, además de anécdotas y citas de otros autores precedentes. Escritos en la época de César, a quien están dedicados, prefigurando ya la estrecha conexión que...