Escuela Preparatoria de Jalisco

City and Architecture, Six generations who built up the modern Latin America comes from the architecture and urban planning history developed in the Latin-American area between 1885 and 1975. This is an organized work from a method called by the author generational, which covers 90 years (six generations). The names of those generations, that each one of them covers a period of 15 years, are gathered together in the chapters names of the book. The exposition of the context of each historic period is connected with the analysis of the architecture work, which offers a wide outlook of the...

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...

Este libro trata de establecer conexiones que puedan guiarnos hacia un nuevo profesionalismo, teniendo en cuenta que las décadas anteriores vieron nacer nuevos tipos de especialistas, principalmente en las áreas de programación, evaluación y participación. Las implicaciones de tal integración son de largo alcance y podrán tener, en el futuro, efectos muy significativos en el entorno físico, la profesión del arquitecto y la formación de los futuros arquitectos. This book is about making connections that may lead towards a new professionalism, since the past decades have given rise...

The private single family house is still very much the preferred choice of home. Yet in recent years there have been many changes not only in the personal situations of the residents, their expectations and desires, but also in the rising costs of energy and raw materials. This has meant that issues such as multi-functionalism, the use of innovative building materials or energy-efficient building methods are increasing in significance. These topical developments have been taken into consideration. The authors introduce floor plan solutions using contemporary projects which bear in mind...