Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe/Spanish English

A major critical study by noted architect and researcher Ramón Gutiérrez on the different phases of the history and evolution of the architectural patrimony of Paraguay spanning from primitive and colonial times to present days. The book includes a large collection of period photographs and color reproductions of the watercolors of the city of Asuncion done between 1855 and 1856 by French traveler Francisco Vincent of colonial and old Asuncion that graphically document how the original urban profile of Asunción has paid the tribute of the urban development and progress sacrificing its most ...

Este trabajo, «Arquitectura y urbanismo en Iberoamérica», aspira a replantear una serie de problemas y contradicciones que se han suscitado en los estudios sobre la realidad americana. Mientras que las historias del arte tradicionales suelen ceñirse al estudio de las obras singulares, emergentes de un contexto cultural más amplio el cual se identifica justamente por la excepción, el autor ha preferido introducir, junto al sistema de desarrollo cronológico y geográfico, una aproximación adicional de carácter tipológico-funcional que permite abordar temas marginales como la...

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...

Esta obra que habla de Santiago Tejupan, posee variados testimonios culturales de distintas épocas. Se sitúa en un valle rodeado por cerros que se consideraban sagrados y la publicación, en sí, invita al lector a conocer Tejupan e interesarse por su antiguo legado y su singular contexto