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Having graduated from Cornell University, Richard Meier established his own architectural firm in New York City in 1963, around a group known as the "Five Architects" of New York. This book includes 70 works and projects, chronologically ordered, from his first private houses around New York, to the most recent cultural centres, museums, corporate buildings and city planning for different cities in Europe, Asia and USA. This book, abundantly illustrated and documented, offers a chronological survey, from the first houses in the Hamptons to the most recent buildings including the Getty Center...

Historical-documental biography of architect-engineer Antonio Arróniz Topete (b. Jalisco 1858-1926), "the engineer of red bricks". The book documents his life and work, considered to be of one of the most extensive and complete elaborated at the end of the Porfirio Diaz regime and the first decades of the 20th century in the State of Jalisco. The book studies his architectural legacy, such as the Ex Seminario Mayor de Guadalajara, transformed into the XV Zona Militar and now the Secretaría de Cultura of Jalisco, the Escuela de Artes y Oficios del Espíritu Santo (demolished in 1953), the...

La aparente contradicción entre las palabras proyectar e incertidumbre revela la tensión conceptual que caracteriza a estas páginas. De un lado, proyectar es un trabajo de previsión y anticipación, cuyo objetivo es la construcción de un edificio que está pensado para permanecer a lo largo del tiempo. Por otro lado, la incertidumbre apela a la imposibilidad de prever, a la falta de certezas y a lo inesperado. La necesidad de búsqueda de un acuerdo entre estos dos objetivos irresolubles, define la intencionalidad y el marco discursivo del libro, situando la ambivalencia como el término ...

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.