Vientos de libertad

"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...

The book examines the long, productive and stormy relationship architect Le Corbusier had with Argentina and the series of events in consequence. His Argentinean disciples Jorge Ferrari Hardoy, Juan Kurchan and Antonio Bonet, although influenced by the master architect had their own architectonic and urban ideas. The book examines the "Austral Net" created towards the productive, plural and complex relationship of these 4 personages where the central figure is the famed Swiss architect. The book is chronologically organized and includes a selection of the most important architecture...

En una aproximación por fragmentos, que interroga las partes antes que el todo, el trabajo cuestiona los métodos convencionales de análisis y propone nuevas formas de leer y de escribir la...

En las últimas décadas ha sido tal el volumen de intervenciones urbanas al borde de agua que estos proyectos empiezan a construir un tipo de diseño en particular. Por ejemplo en Norteamérica funciona desde 1981 una organización para su promoción: el Waterfront Center (TWC), la cual realiza congresos y talleres, otorga premios y da apoyo a comunidades para intervenir los frentes de agua. En general, estos proyectos han buscado incorporar a los espacios públicos de las ciudades, áreas en obsolescencia como instalaciones portuarias o fabriles y, en algunos casos, zonas amenazadas...