Nuevas ecologías

Colombian houses have always been a showcase for the inhabitants of a highly diverse country. These houses range from the haciendas of coffee plantations to the restored colonial homes of Cartagena. Fascinating essays and attractive photos exemplify the evolution of the art of living in Colombia.

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.

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 posee tres títulos suplementarios que no pretenden cerrarlo en unidad ni agotar su explicación. El principal, "Itinerarios", evoca un viaje por los caminos del proyecto sin marcar significados precisos ni recorridos prefijados de probada eficacia para el éxito. Convoca a crear caminos con nuevos sentidos, los invita al riesgo de ver en el viaje mismo. Así Llamaban los griegos a la teoría, viajar, volver y ver otra cosa, con otros ojos. Si el proyecto es un camino, un método, es también un medio para llegar a los objetivos, a los fines anticipados: la forma espacial...