Diálogos reconstruidos para una historia de la Caracas moderna

An architecture school celebrates its 10th anniversary by publishing representative student work, but concerned with how readers often fail to acknowledge and ultimately disregard the relevance of student ideas, reducing them to mere image-making. Instead of listing projects by type or name, it was decided they would be presented in question format (bilingually), underlining the importance of inquiry over image. Question entries numbered from 1 to 100 (grouped by theme) predetermined the books format. Elegance (it is about architecture) and informality (but also about students) had to be...

El objeto básico de este libro es la formación de actitudes, formas y temas característicos de los artistas y arquitectos europeos que, entre 1900 y 1930, vieron su trabajo confrontado con los nuevos adelantos tecnológicos de la primera era de la máquina. La exhaustiva argumentación de Banham, que toma la máquina como registro metafórico, parte del sistema planteado por la escuela de Beaux-Arts, examina entre otras las contribuciones del futurismo, De Stijl, el cubismo y el expresionismo, y finaliza en la Bauhaus. La lectura de este libro hoy, desde las nuevas perspectivas...

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...

Architectural guide to the city of Guadalajara, with a selection of close to 300 buildings representative of all time periods. The guide is divided in 3 sections: the first, the largest and medullar part of the book is the presentation of the buildings; a second section is an inventory of buildings important in the history of the city but now disappeared, and a third section includes location maps with recommended itineraries and routes. Each entry includes the name, date and brief history of the building and the name of the architect.