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Text (in Spanish) and images complement each other to create a narrative thread that offers informative insights into the architect's intellectual and visual imagination and expands our understanding of Olgiati's oeuvre.

Mexico City Architecture Guide is a compilation of more than 150 works of architecture dating from the early 20th century up to the present day. To help orient readers, the guide is divided into five areas and includes seven maps to create a comprehensive panorama of the Mexican megalopolis. Each project includes details about the relevant architects, location and year of construction, as well as public transport information. The texts, photographs and maps created for this guide give fresh shape to the city. Now available in an English-language edition for the first time, Mexico City...

Profusely illustrated, this historical work focuses on the planning and construction of the Plaza Mayor in Madrid, Spain, during the second half of the 16th century—when Madrid went from being a mercantile town to the capital of the Hapsburg Empire. Including a detailed analysis of archived documents, architectural plans, and drawings, this study chronicles this monument's architectural and urban development, explains the symbolism associated with it, and reveals how it came to be a model for other European constructions. Profusamente ilustrada, esta obra histórica enfoca el planeamiento y ...

La Protección Pasiva contra Incendios es la medida primaria integrada a los elementos de construcción de un inmueble para brindar una seguridad y protección contra el fuego inherente, respondiendo contra las llamas, el calor y el humo para mantener los requerimientos fundamentales de la compartimentación de los espacios del inmueble, su estabilidad estructural, la separación del fuego y una ruta de evacuación segura. Las medidas de la PPCI alcanzan su propósito de diseño incrementando la resistencia estructural de la estructura del inmueble, protegiendo a la estructura contra los...