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Brief overview of ObregÑn's (b. Mexico) work as one of the most influencial Mexican born architects of the 20th century.

The incredible life story of one of the 20th century's most important designers, who knew everyone from Hemingway to Picasso. Ettore Sottsass and the Poetry of Things chronicles the life and times of one of the most important, prolific, and, above all, interesting designers and architects of the 20th century. Sottsass (1917-2007), originally trained as an architect and worked as a design consultant for Olivetti, where he developed the iconic Valentine typewriter, before going on to found the Memphis Group in the 1980s, ushering in an era of influential designs in furniture, ceramics and...

El volumen III de la Serie EPC tiene como propósito explicitar las condiciones teóricas, metodológicas y técnicas de los primeros dos Talleres Proyectuales de la Maestría en Investigación Proyectual, FADU-UBA. El proceso pedagógico se basa en pensar alternativamente las condiciones contemporáneas del habitar, promover un posicionamiento crítico-propositivo y abonar su sentido último: problematizar las miradas instaladas y dispositivadas no sólo en la investigación y enseñanza, sino también en el ejercicio profesional de la arquitectura. Bajo la consigna de construir un aporte al ...

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...