Musica, color y arquitectura

City and Architecture, Six generations who built up the modern Latin America comes from the architecture and urban planning history developed in the Latin-American area between 1885 and 1975. This is an organized work from a method called by the author generational, which covers 90 years (six generations). The names of those generations, that each one of them covers a period of 15 years, are gathered together in the chapters names of the book. The exposition of the context of each historic period is connected with the analysis of the architecture work, which offers a wide outlook of the...

Por desgracia, una de las ciudades coloniales de México que mayor devastación ha sufrido sobre su patrimonio histórico y cultural, es Guadalajara, capital del estado de Jalisco. La segunda mitad del siglo xix y la primera del xx representan dos etapas en que su configuración arquitectónica sufrió, bajo la premisa de la idea del progreso, terribles cambios que llevaron a la destrucción de numerosos e invaluables edificios y espacios públicos. Estas construcciones, que significaban un rasgo de identidad no sólo para los tapatíos, sino para todos los jaliscienses, simboliza ahora un...

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.

The present edition graphically documents the design, construction and installationof the mega main public library Biblioteca de México "José Vasconcelos" locatedin Mexico City. In 2001 a transformation project of the Biblioteca de México proposal had three main actions: the restoration of the La Ciudadela building, the construction of a more modern and larger building and the establishment of an interchange network between the public libraries in México, where the new library was to be the central node of a national network. The new library that includes surrounding botanical garden was...