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Los maestros de la modernidad convirtieron la arquitectura doméstica en un laboratorio de cajas de aire. Sus viviendas hicieron del espacio a una caja la patria de un nuevo tiempo por conquistar. Una nueva forma de habitar surgía al calor de una nueva técnica y de una renovada intimidad. La caja establecía la relación entre un hombre viejo y un mundo nuevo que había llegado casi sin esperarlo. El interior de la vivienda especulaba la expectativa de un mundo desconocido. Aquella caja guardaba en su interior a un hombre temeroso de un mundo con el que no contaba y no conocía. Su interior ...

Traces the career of the turn of the century Spanish architect, shows his designs for homes, apartments, schools, and churches, and discusses his unique, organic style

"Critical study and research of the life and architecture of Urzúa (b. Mexico) who along architects Luis Barragán and Ignacio Díaz Morales started the localartistic movement known as "regionalismo" in Guadalajara. The edition is divided in 3 sections: his life, closely related to his architecture, an illustrated catalogue of his life production and acollection of facsimile copies of documents from his personal archives"--Provided by vendor.

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...