Rehabilitación

The private single family house is still very much the preferred choice of home. Yet in recent years there have been many changes not only in the personal situations of the residents, their expectations and desires, but also in the rising costs of energy and raw materials. This has meant that issues such as multi-functionalism, the use of innovative building materials or energy-efficient building methods are increasing in significance. These topical developments have been taken into consideration. The authors introduce floor plan solutions using contemporary projects which bear in mind...

The life and architecture of Cetto, a brilliant architect intellectually formed around the German expressionist movement and who, when arriving in Mexico "revalues" the traditional materials and proceedings of the Mexican culture integrating them gradually into his architecture. Part of a monographic series on 20th century modern architects.

Los diferentes trabajos de la reunión científica homónima, recopilados en formato digibook, se proponen el objetivo de estimular el análisis, propiciar la reflexión y profundizar en el debate sobre los procesos de urbanización más recientes y sus efectos sobre el territorio y el paisaje, en particular los producidos por el vertiginoso proceso de construcción de viviendas y de expansión urbana que ha tenido lugar en España desde mediados de la década de los noventa.

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.

This publication presents her most recent work, which was presented at The Galleria Giorgio Persano "Anywhere out of the World" where time was the subject but also a metaphorical medium.