Codigo Internacional de la Edificacion 2003

Sin duda alguna, el año de 2014 tiene particular significación no sólo para la comunidad académica, administrativa y estudiantil de la Universidad de Guadalajara, sino para todo el sistema educativo del centro occidente del país, especialmente el jalisciense, ya que la Escuela Preparatoria de Jalisco, génesis de la educación superior contemporánea, cumple 100 años. Con este libro rendimos homenaje a esta escuela, cuya labor educativa nunca ha sido interrumpida, y hacemos público nuestro reconocimiento a su trascendencia en la formación permanente de cientos de miles de...

Visiting an exhibition by Leonardo Nierman is penetrating a space that invites us to dream in infinities, to discover exteriors and interiors of cosmic worlds. The exhibition Genesis de un Sueno (Genesis of a Dream) mounted at the Contemporary University Museum of Art in Mexico City conveyed such sensations to visitors. Running from May through August of 1996, it featured three hundred of Nierman's works spanning forty years and was reinstalled by popular demand through January 1997. Its beauty and mystery are now captured in this elegant volume. Nierman: Genesis de un Sueno is a celebration...

The book analyses a selection of 10 houses and 14 buildings constructed in Costa Rica from 2000 to 2005 and that represent the current urban San Jose's growth trends. The domestic architecture reflects a higher purchasing power with an appreciation oh natural surroundings, the office and industrial buildings are aimed some at rescuing the historic downtown area while others were constructed in the suburban area of the city. Includes biographies of mentioned architects.

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 A work mostly based on unpublished sources.