La impronta del ladrillo

Este es el tercer volumen de la serie titulada "Hábitats y sociedades del Pacífico", que presenta los resultados de un programa de investigación adelantado en la última década por los autores, integrantes del grupo Hábitat Pacífico del CITCE de la Universidad del Valle, y que culminó en 1999 con el estudio "Sistemas Urbano-aldeanos del Pacífico", cofinanciado por COLCIENCIAS (Código 1106-13-619-95). El primer volumen se dedicó al poblamiento, la colonización campesina y el sistema aldeano de "La bahía de Solano" (2001). Con el segundo se recorrió la trayectoria y el pasado de la ...

Revealing the pleasure of contemplation, a well-known aesthetic professor journeys to the four corners of the earth, admiring the arts, architecture, and the people.

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 ...

The author describes and discusses the influence Le Corbusier in Uruguay through a series of trips, the first done by the Swiss-French architect in 1929, and the remaining ones from the three Uruguayan architects who joined the workshop of the notable architect: Carlos Gómez Gavazzo, in 1933, Justino Serralta, in 1948, and Carlos Clémot, in 1949. The study also includes aspects of Antonio Bonet Castellana's trip, who was there in 1937 and in Uruguay from 1945 to 1948, and additionally analyzes what Eladio Dieste learned from his "Le Courvoisier partners" Serralta and Clémot as well as the...