Cincuenta años de urbanística en Italia (1942-1992)

A 15 años de su nacimiento, la Cátedra Blanca CEMEX se ha consolidado como una referencia para quienes hoy en día se capacitan como futuros arquitectos en México. Se trata de un curso intensivo, de alto rendimiento, que forma a los alumnos con una visión del impacto que puede lograrse a través del diseño arquitectónico. Desde el Tecnológico de Monterrey y la Escuela de Arquitectura, Arte y Diseño, se celebra con la publicación de este libro la gran aportación que la Cátedra Blanca ha significado para las numerosas generaciones de arquitectos que han sido partícipes de este...

The expert contributors to this lavishly illustrated volume, devoted entirely to Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion of 1929, address here for the first time the forgotten contexts of the Pavilion's genesis. Habitually thought of as an abstract, unpolluted, and splendidly isolated building--a precursor of Mies's American period--the Pavilion is revealed here as a thoroughly European work, perhaps less pristine but more authentic. Mies and Lilly Reich were commissioned to design not only the Pavilion but also more than one hundred thousand square feet of German stands spread throughout the...

Widely thought to be the greatest American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was a true pioneer, both artistically and technically. At a time when reinforced concrete and steel were considered industrial building materials, Wright boldly made use of them to build private homes. His prairie house concept - that of a low, sprawling home based upon a simple L or T figure - was the driving force behind some of his most famous houses and became a model for rural architecture across America. Wright’s designs for office and public buildings were equally groundbreaking and unique. From...

This is not another book on estates and confiscations. The author offers us a precise radiography of the state of the Carthusian Monastery in its magnificent final decades, of the ravages it suffered from 1808 onwards and its subsequent nationalisation, auction and sale process. A work mostly based on unpublished sources.