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El libro analiza y clarifica un tema hasta ahora un poco estudiado: el jardín como obra de arquitectura durante el Renacimiento italiano. Se acompaña de abundante material gráfico (más de 200 ilustraciones) y un índice de nombres.

El actual contexto en el que se desenvuelven la educación y la arquitectura, está constantemente en entredicho debido a la continua crisis en la que se encuentran inmersas ambas disciplinas, principalmente, porque se les presupone un aislamiento respecto a las transformaciones y necesidades sociales. La arquitectura y la educación comparten un territorio común, el entorno de aprendizaje que, según la cultura o las circunstancias, adquiere más o menos protagonismo y, cuya existencia y configuración, también se encuentra hoy cuestionada, debido a la generación de un entorno virtual...

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style and accomplishments written by a leading architecture critic. Then, approximately twenty noteworthy works and projects are discussed by the architect and presented in detail with site plans, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.

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 ...