Los tiempos del espacio

The book examines the long, productive and stormy relationship architect Le Corbusier had with Argentina and the series of events in consequence. His Argentinean disciples Jorge Ferrari Hardoy, Juan Kurchan and Antonio Bonet, although influenced by the master architect had their own architectonic and urban ideas. The book examines the "Austral Net" created towards the productive, plural and complex relationship of these 4 personages where the central figure is the famed Swiss architect. The book is chronologically organized and includes a selection of the most important architecture...

Promotional travel guide issued by the Banco Popular del Peru, principally intended for the American tourist, containing information on the Bank, location of its main office as well as branch offices throughout the country; Peruvian currency; steamship routes between North and South America, roads and railroads for local travel; industry and agriculture, and the art, architecture, religion, and culture of Peru.

La arquitectura de Luis Barragán se ha convertido en uno de los hechos artísticos señeros del arte mexicano y universal. [...] Asi, en este ensayo, la estudiosa rememora las tempranas influencias que Barragan recibio en su primera estancia europea: les disenos de jardines de Bac, las prospuestas vanguaristats de Le Corbusier, y la "arquitectura sin fin" de Kiesler[...].

"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...