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"This study goes beyond a formal description and esthetic analysis of house design in Mexico to offer an interpretation based on the complex network of economic, social, and cultural relations. Begins with an analysis of the indigenous home and lifestyle and continues into postrevolutionary, modern, and contemporary periods of historic transition, during which a new conception of urban space developed offering greater possibilities for individual expression. Contains many b/w plates of colonial city plans, 19th-century plans and photographs, and 20th-century photographs up to the...

Located in Mexico City, Tatiana Bilbao Estudio is well known internationally for its use of traditional Mexican construction techniques, the highly sculptural effects of its buildings and its unusually collaborative approach toward each client. Founded by Tatiana Bilbao (born 1972) in 2004, its completed buildings include the Gratitude Open Chapel in La Ruta del Peregrino, Gabriel Orozco's house in Roca Blanca and the botanical garden in Culiacan. The enormous production of ideas and designs that takes place there is directed to different spaces, in which the architecture is deeply humanized. ...

Este libro construye un conjunto de conceptos alrededor de la perspectiva investigativa de los paisajes artificiales. Estos se configuran como mundos posibles en evolución a través de procesos de simulación digital, autoorganización social y cocreación de devenires edificables, que desdibujan la frontera entre lo natural y lo artificial.

El presente texto desarrolla los principales conceptos para la comprensión de los procesos del transporte de sedimentos, y en particular, de aquellos que generan erosión en las costas de las playas. Se inicia con el tratamiento de los contenidos básicos relacionados con las cartas marinas, los estudios que relevan el mar, las mareas astronómicas, las olas y los sedimentos, de forma de que el lector cuente con una introducción a dichos temas. Para los capítulos se han empleado fotografías, imágenes satelitales, estudios de evolución costera y la experiencia actual existente para...