Suelo urbano y vivienda social en Bogotá

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...

El objetivo de esta obra es dar a conocer la formacion y la ejecucion inicial de una de las piezas mas significativas de la urbanistica del siglo XIX: el Ensanche de Barcelona, segun el proyecto de Ildefonso Cerda, la transformacion de un territorio rural desconocido, la tecnica de su construccion y el sector inmobiliario que lo desarrollo, explicando no solo el hecho urbanistico sino tambien una parte importante de la historia de Barcelona. Dicha publicacion se enmarca en la linea de los trabajos de investigacion que los profesores del LUB han venido desarrollando desde finales de los anos...

Perspectives on how the city is Imagined in Latin America. Focussing on Latin America as an urban case study, an examination of urban imaginaries and the construct of our relationships with cities. Perspectives from anthropologists, sociologists, artists, and psychologists.

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.