Musica, color y arquitectura

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.

Este catalogo recorre cronologicamente la obra construida desde 1959 hasta 1992 por el arquitecto Umberto Riva con despacho profesional en su ciudad natal.

El interés suscitado por la desaparición a finales del siglo XX, de la manzana y la retícula, del paisaje cultural, arquitectónico y urbanístico de nuestras ciudades, y su vuelta con determinadas invariantes a finales de los 60, han sido considerados los motivos de esta investigación. Por ello, considerándolos como fundamentales, se parte de la idea de manzana y retícula, haciendo una revisión introductoria del concepto de tipo y del de la forma, normalmente entendidos desde la naturaleza de la obra arquitectónica, que se precisa extender al urbanismo, y que sirven de herramienta...

Mexico City Architecture Guide is a compilation of more than 150 works of architecture dating from the early 20th century up to the present day. To help orient readers, the guide is divided into five areas and includes seven maps to create a comprehensive panorama of the Mexican megalopolis. Each project includes details about the relevant architects, location and year of construction, as well as public transport information. The texts, photographs and maps created for this guide give fresh shape to the city. Now available in an English-language edition for the first time, Mexico City...