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Life and work of polemic architect and urbanist Meyer (b. Switzerland), one of the most important functionalists of the 1920's. The former director of the Bauhaus, he worked for the Post-Revolutionary Regimes in Mexico as the director of the Instituto del Urbanismo y Planification from 1942 through 1949, while also becoming the editor of the collective graphic workshop Taller de Grafica Popular (TGP) from 1947 to 1949. Many plates of his architectural designs and the structural diagrams Meyer used for the Bauhaus and in IUP in Mexico.

Desde las fortalezas, iglesias o palacios que con sus recios muros de piedra conchífera comformaron la ciudad colonial, hasta las últimas construcciones en hormigón armado, esta guía presenta una selección del urbanismo y arquitectura de La Habana: 252 ejemplos-plazas, paseos, conjuntos urbanos y edificios-descritos con fotografías, planos y reseñas textuales.

The book examines the long, productive and stormy relationship architect Le Corbusier had with Argentina and the series of events in consequence. His Argentinean disciples Jorge Ferrari Hardoy, Juan Kurchan and Antonio Bonet, although influenced by the master architect had their own architectonic and urban ideas. The book examines the "Austral Net" created towards the productive, plural and complex relationship of these 4 personages where the central figure is the famed Swiss architect. The book is chronologically organized and includes a selection of the most important architecture...

Invita a reflexionar sobre el paisaje como expresión social de cierto orden territorial y de las relaciones intrínsecas que lo sustentan. En esa dinámica, emerge un nuevo estatus de lugar mediante marcas simbólicas que remiten a percepciones sensoriales, a representaciones colectivas, a construcciones subjetivas. Este tipo de intervenciones, realizadas como caracterizaciones, delimitaciones y diferenciaciones de lugares y de actores, permite reconocer discursos de segregación, de pugnas, de desigualdades. Para ahondar sobre estas cuestiones, toma como caso de estudio el área de borde...