La Habana, arquitectura del siglo XX

Danish design is a by-word for cool sophistication the world over. As you might expect, Copenhagen is home to a delectable assortment of hip restaurants. And, whether your dining preference is a cheerful bistro or high-end temple of gastronomy, everything in the surroundings will be sleekly coordinated from the cutlery to the artwork on the walls!

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,...

Este libro reúne conceptos y procedimientos referidos a la enseñanza de la arquitectura que se inician como Plan Chaco en el año 1957 y que acompañan el hacer docente de JMyV desde entonces. Han pasado 50 años desde su lúcida formulación y aún no se asume de manera cierta, aunque se declame repetidas veces, que la arquitectura está ligada a la comprensión de nuestro real problema regional e histórico como inicio para un conocimiento de lo universal. Que tiene que ser pensada para "el hombre común en su vida diaria". Que es indispensable la integración de conocimientos hoy...

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.