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.

The book is the resulting papers from the Seminars of Latin American Architecture (SAL) organized by CEDODAL as an example of academic cooperation between Latin American architects who share their concern for the conservation of the region's architectural patrimony. This edition comprises case studies and historical, economic, social and architectural analysis of the farms and landowners of the haciendas and estancias from 7 countries of Latin America: Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, México, Perú and Puerto Rico.

El tratado de arquitectura de Marco Vitruvio Polión, el único entre los producidos por la civilización grecorromana que ha llegado completo hasta nosotros, es un examen sistemático de todos los aspectos que debe conocer quien desee construir -lugar adecuado, materiales que hay que emplear, tipos de edificios, órdenes, ornamentos y máquinas variadas-, y recoge, asimismo, otras muchas consideraciones astronómicas y matemáticas, además de anécdotas y citas de otros autores precedentes. Escritos en la época de César, a quien están dedicados, prefigurando ya la estrecha conexión que...