Ciudades imaginadas en la literatura y en las artes

Los maestros de la modernidad convirtieron la arquitectura doméstica en un laboratorio de cajas de aire. Sus viviendas hicieron del espacio a una caja la patria de un nuevo tiempo por conquistar. Una nueva forma de habitar surgía al calor de una nueva técnica y de una renovada intimidad. La caja establecía la relación entre un hombre viejo y un mundo nuevo que había llegado casi sin esperarlo. El interior de la vivienda especulaba la expectativa de un mundo desconocido. Aquella caja guardaba en su interior a un hombre temeroso de un mundo con el que no contaba y no conocía. Su interior ...

"This study goes beyond a formal description and esthetic analysis of house design in Mexico to offer an interpretation based on the complex network of economic, social, and cultural relations. Begins with an analysis of the indigenous home and lifestyle and continues into postrevolutionary, modern, and contemporary periods of historic transition, during which a new conception of urban space developed offering greater possibilities for individual expression. Contains many b/w plates of colonial city plans, 19th-century plans and photographs, and 20th-century photographs up to the...

"Major survey of Ibero-American 21st century architects details the work of 40 architects"--Provided by vendor.

"Critical study and research of the life and architecture of Urzúa (b. Mexico) who along architects Luis Barragán and Ignacio Díaz Morales started the localartistic movement known as "regionalismo" in Guadalajara. The edition is divided in 3 sections: his life, closely related to his architecture, an illustrated catalogue of his life production and acollection of facsimile copies of documents from his personal archives"--Provided by vendor.