Paulo Mendes Da Rocha

La patria es amplia y extensa, más allá de la centralizadora Buenos Aires. La naturaleza presente en sus paisajes. Naturaleza que hace a sus habitantes cultivadores de la misma. Cultivadores de la naturaleza humana. Cosechando los valores para construir el bien común y compartir el amor al trabajo. Habitar la naturaleza es la creatividad en sintonía con la pródiga Creación regalada. Conozco a Rodolfo Frolik desde su época de estudiante en Buenos Aires y Él es un ejemplo de patriota, que sin encandilarse, apostó a los mejores valores y volvió a su Tandil natal para cultivar a través ...

This is not another book on estates and confiscations. The author offers us a precise radiography of the state of the Carthusian Monastery in its magnificent final decades, of the ravages it suffered from 1808 onwards and its subsequent nationalisation, auction and sale process. A work mostly based on unpublished sources.

As part of the celebration of the Symposium "Shell and Spatial Structures: New Materials and Technologies, New Designs and Innovations -- A Sustainable Approach to Architectural and Structural Design" of the International Association of Special Structures (IASS-SLTE) held October 23-31, 2008 in Acapulco, the Faculty of Architecture of the UNAM developed 3 projects specifically for the occasion: 1) An exhibition of representative scale models of the "golden age" (1950-1975) of the construction of reinforced concrete shells in Mexico; 2) A documentary featuring the characteristics and evolution ...

"CEDODAL in collaboration with the Estrada family organized an exhibition and the present accompanying book that examines the life and professional career of Argentinean architect Estrada. The book gathers various authors who review in their texts the influence German architect Hermann Jansen had over the young Estrada, his integration to the National Forests project (1934) and his legacy in the planning of urban centers, infrastructure works and tourism and hotel architecture particularly in the Patagonian region. Estrada's culmination was the Civic Center of Bariloche, (today historic and...