El proyecto arquitectónico

La civilización etrusca dominó el norte de Italia durante casi siete siglos, aunque su época de mayor esplendor abarca del siglo VII al IV antes de Cristo. Los etruscos ocuparon una amplia franja geográfica entre los ríos Tíber al sur y Arno al norte, con el mar al este. Etruria, que no fue nunca un país sino, al igual que la Grecia clásica, un conjunto de ciudades que compartían una cultura, nos ha dejado una profunda impronta. En muchas de aquellas urbes —Orvieto, Tarquinia, Volterra, Cortona, Arezzo, Perugia y Viterbo—, los etruscos construyeron sus ciudades en amplias mesetas ...

"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...

Hospitals and health centers are a unique category of architecture with clearly defined characteristics. Health architecture must offer imaginative, constructive responses and flexible solutions to the problems raised by this special and flexible solutions to the problems raised by this special type of facility: planning, budgets and space as well as the idiosyncrasies arising from each particular field of health. New Health Facilities presents the best examples of health architecture constructed in recent years and each of the architects demonstrates a solid understanding of the need to...

Located in Mexico City, Tatiana Bilbao Estudio is well known internationally for its use of traditional Mexican construction techniques, the highly sculptural effects of its buildings and its unusually collaborative approach toward each client. Founded by Tatiana Bilbao (born 1972) in 2004, its completed buildings include the Gratitude Open Chapel in La Ruta del Peregrino, Gabriel Orozco's house in Roca Blanca and the botanical garden in Culiacan. The enormous production of ideas and designs that takes place there is directed to different spaces, in which the architecture is deeply humanized. ...