La Habana, arquitectura del siglo XX

How much importance do we give to the settings in which we live, sleep and relax when we go travelling? Nowadays travel usually means spending time in hotels, and these establishments have set about specializing in order to satisfy the varied needs of their guests. In this book we have sought to open a window on today's highly innovative hotels by showcasing some particularly attractive examples from all over the world. All the hotels that we have gathered together are united by a quest for up-to-date design aimed at providing a welcome for business travelers or tourists.

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.

Study of the architectural and urban transformations in Puebla from the period of Independence to the Mexican Revolution.

Cuando hace cuatro años pusimos en marcha esta aventura que respondía fundamentalmente a la inquietud de conocer cómo otros estudios de arquitectura se enfrentaban a la hoja en blanco, no dedicamos mucho tiempo a pensar dónde podríamos desembocar. Ahora, con la edición de este tercer volumen de Práctica Arquitectónica / Architectural Practice, se acumulan 20 textos y 20 visiones, veinte formas de enseñar y veinte maneras de proyectar. Este número veinte consolida un referente teórico de creciente valor para estudiantes y arquitectos. Tres libros con un total de casi seiscientas...