Jose Luis Mateo/Spanish and English

En una aproximación por fragmentos, que interroga las partes antes que el todo, el trabajo cuestiona los métodos convencionales de análisis y propone nuevas formas de leer y de escribir la...

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 ...

This volume focusses on the mosaics and geometric designs from Ecija, the ancient Roman Astigi, the capital of the Conventus Astigitanus, which is one of four conventus iuridici that made the Roman Baetica. This work is part of a much larger study centered recently on the mosaics and the geometrical compositions of the Conventus Astgitanus, whose immediate objective pursued to cover the analysis of the musivaria of the whole of Baetica.In conjunction with the mosaics catalogue, this volume presents a catalogue of geometric designs, which are results of studies of different fields that make up ...

La idea del recinto sagrado, sitio de encuentro de los mortales con sus dioses, es común a todas las religiones, a todas las creencias. Más allá de su forma, tamaño, implantación y ornamentación la arquitectura sagrada es, por definición, el lugar depositario de la tradición esotérica. Es el espacio donde el hombre busca el conocimiento de los misterios, de lo inaccesible; de este modo el templo se constituye en el ámbito en el que se guardan todos aquellos elementos que hacen a la tradición siendo su símbolo más significativo precisamente la imposibilidad de acceder a ciertos...