Escuela Preparatoria de Jalisco

Hoy en día, las Tesis de Maestría son un instituto universitario global, altamente protocolizado en sus características y condiciones de producción y evaluación y, por ello mismo, un factor curricular determinante para las oportunidades de los posgraduados en general, los investigadores y las instituciones en las que estos desarrollan su actividad. Sin embargo, esos protocolos originados en las disciplinas científicas -en particular las exactas y naturales y en detrimento de las pretensiones universalistas de sus métodos (avaladas por cierta pereza burocrática)- no deberían ser...

Bioarquitectura indaga desde diversos ángulos los principios naturales de las edificaciones animales y humanas, compilando, por primera vez, gran parte de los conocimientos que dan origen y conforman la arquitectura orgánica.

London is famous for Big Ben; Paris for the Eiffel Tower; Rome for the Colosseum. Barcelona, on the other hand, is not identified by one or two famous buildings as these other European cities, but rather by an entire movement of turn-of-the-century architecture known simply as Modernisme. Familiar to Americans as art nouveau, its most famous practitioner was the artist and architect Antoni Gaudi. But the city is filled with superb examples of art nouveau in vivid color in Barcelona Art Nouveau. This book offers a tour of 46 houses, public buildings, and monuments in the art-nouveau style,...

Colombian architect Rogelio Salmona has translated pragmatic and poetic concepts and intentions into physical form. These result from the architect's deep communion with and understanding of the materials and processes, as well as of the historic-cultural context in which his architectural intervention takes place. Salmona's oeuvre, including such notable examples as the Torres del Parque (1967) in Bogota, the Presidential House for Illustrious Guests (1981) in Cartagena, the Quimbaya Museum (1983) in Armenia and the National Archive of the Nation (1992) in Bogota, is without doubt one of the ...