Diálogos reconstruidos para una historia de la Caracas moderna

"No historical European city looks as modern as Berlin. Renovating and changing constantly, in the last one hundred years a notion of modernity in architecture peculiar to Berlin has developed in the German capital. In light of the multitude of meanings this term can have the present volume shows a broad spectrum of Modernism with its technical and constructive as well as formal and aesthetic innovations in the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century, marked by the great names of architecture, from Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe to Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid. Berlin...

Este libro está dividido en dos partes, incluye en su primera el desarrollo de un marco o enfoque conceptual de la ciudad y sus lugares; en la segunda, experiencias concretas de intervenciones proyectivas y de gestión del autor, precedidas en cada programa u operación de las consideraciones personales que el problema-tema le indujeron, vale decir el marco de ideas motrices de sus procesos de lectura de la realidad, imaginantes de ella como situación creativa nueva e inédita. Estos textos, alguno fenomenológico, otro histórico, alguno antropológico, otro pictórico, otro sincrético,...

Mexico City Architecture Guide is a compilation of more than 150 works of architecture dating from the early 20th century up to the present day. To help orient readers, the guide is divided into five areas and includes seven maps to create a comprehensive panorama of the Mexican megalopolis. Each project includes details about the relevant architects, location and year of construction, as well as public transport information. The texts, photographs and maps created for this guide give fresh shape to the city. Now available in an English-language edition for the first time, Mexico City...

This comprehensive round-up features the many door and window types available today, including the most recent technical advances and design trends, with a focus on innovative materials, styles and shapes.