Valparaíso. Un balcón urbano / An urban balcony

Una cuidada selección de proyectos recientes realizados por arquitectos, proporcionando un interesante panorama de lenguajes y técnicas aplicadas a mostrar una arquitectura factible, un verdadero reto, frente al aumento de costos de los terrenos urbanos la casa compacta es una respuesta sensata. Las memorias escritas por los propios arquitectos son conceptuales, muestran sus puntos de vista frente a una problemática similar, cada obra es mostrada exhaustivamente con plantas, cortes, vistas y fotos de detalles que ayudan a hacer más comprensiva su obra, material de documentación necesaria ...

Hospitals and health centers are a unique category of architecture with clearly defined characteristics. Health architecture must offer imaginative, constructive responses and flexible solutions to the problems raised by this special and flexible solutions to the problems raised by this special type of facility: planning, budgets and space as well as the idiosyncrasies arising from each particular field of health. New Health Facilities presents the best examples of health architecture constructed in recent years and each of the architects demonstrates a solid understanding of the need to...

Dentro del complejo saber de la naturaleza y del intricado universo del ser humano, este libro deja como reto la busqueda de un equilibrio entre nuestras acciones y el entonrno que habitamos para garantizar la armonía en el planeta que compartimos. Pero principalmente este libro lanza el desafío para la busqueda de un espacio perdido, el espacio que nos pertenece como seres vivos, esos espacios bilógicos de los cuales carecemos, huérfanos del espacio que nos es propio como organismos vivos.

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 ...