Arquitectura y urbanismo

A compilation of texts by Professor Julio Arroyo previously presented in different academic meetings make up the present edition centered in public spaces in contemporary cities and the architecture that is concomitant, taking as a study reference the city of Santa Fe. Public spaces are a crucial category of urban life. However, in contemporary cities inconsistencies and contradictions prevail against the ethical postulates that define them -social cohesion, democratic inclusion, free expression, symbolic representation of citizen values- and the phenomena of what is public, dissociated in...

Llus Domnech i Montaner is the author of such extraordinary buildings as the Palau de la Msica, the museum of zoology and the hospital of Sant Pau. This publication gathers a collection of articles that treat the same works and present-day photographic material.

The present edition graphically documents the design, construction and installationof the mega main public library Biblioteca de México "José Vasconcelos" locatedin Mexico City. In 2001 a transformation project of the Biblioteca de México proposal had three main actions: the restoration of the La Ciudadela building, the construction of a more modern and larger building and the establishment of an interchange network between the public libraries in México, where the new library was to be the central node of a national network. The new library that includes surrounding botanical garden was...

Este libro de los arquitectos Rodolfo Livingston y Nidia Marinaro resume la vasta experiencia de ambos (50 años en el caso de R.L.) en la transformación de las casas de barrio, conservando el atractivo original de los espacios y de las fachadas. El humor, que abunda en estas páginas, encierra conceptos profundos como en el diálogo del arquitecto con la mujer que se niega a dormir en el cuarto de "la otra", la tormenta en el campo y el capítulo sobre la "resignificación", entre otros. Quienes estén por comprar una casa de barrio y los que ya viven en una, encontrarán alternativas...