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Volumen II: Cascarones delgados en de Hormigón Armado en el Ecuador / Mauricio Luzuriaga, Ana María Carrión y Álvaro Valladares -- La Central Hidroeléctrica de El Chorro y el Caminito del Rey / Luis Machuca Casares, Ángeles Alonso Nuñez -- Petrificación de la Riqueza. La construcción medieval en Las Merindades de Burgos / Rocío, Maira-Vidal -- La bóveda encamonada de la capilla de la encarnación de la Iglesia de los Terceros de Sevilla / Carlos Martín Jiménez y Julián García Muñoz -- Edificación decimonónica con bloques de conchuela en la Ex-Aduana de Frontera, Tabasco /...

This number of the monographic series is dedicated to restoration specialist, architect and watercolor painter Villa Chávez (b. Mexico). This extensive study of Villa Chávez life and architecture is divided in 2 parts: the first reviews his academic career and his professional practice in Guadalajara and Colima. A second part reviews in detail his restoration projects, his architecture, his open space interventions and his pictorial production (watercolors and drawings). Amongst other academic contributions Villa Chávez founded the School of Architecture in the University of Colima and was ...

La civilización etrusca dominó el norte de Italia durante casi siete siglos, aunque su época de mayor esplendor abarca del siglo VII al IV antes de Cristo. Los etruscos ocuparon una amplia franja geográfica entre los ríos Tíber al sur y Arno al norte, con el mar al este. Etruria, que no fue nunca un país sino, al igual que la Grecia clásica, un conjunto de ciudades que compartían una cultura, nos ha dejado una profunda impronta. En muchas de aquellas urbes —Orvieto, Tarquinia, Volterra, Cortona, Arezzo, Perugia y Viterbo—, los etruscos construyeron sus ciudades en amplias mesetas ...

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...