Vicente Galicia

Mallol is an architectural design center that functions under the lead of its director and promoter, Panamanian architect Ignacio Mallol Tamayo. This edition examines 25 year of professional operations of the largest architectural firm in Central America and illustrates, with more than 270 color images, representative examples of Latin American 21st century architecture, highlighting the firm's most representative buildings: Le Cube Mallol, one of the early designs (where Mallol plays with forms, space and symetry), a clear example of the type of large constructions that would later...

"The book reviews the personality and temperament of neoclassic architect De Alba (b. Mexico) through his architecture. De Alba was an architect/engineer who left anarchitectural legacy in the cities of Guadalajara and Chapala active at the turn of the 20th century whose constructions reflect the universal eclecticism of a Revolutionary generation and industrial society educated during the Porfirio Diaz regime"--Provided by vendor.

¿Hasta qué punto el edificio del museo debe ser también una creación artística? El protagonismo de las realizaciones arquitectónicas para el arte contemporáneo en España en las últimas décadas ha disparado la polémica funcionalidad versus artisticidad de la arquitectura del museo. El libro plantea un análisis arquitectónico y museográfico de los museos y centros de arte contemporáneo en España desde su aparición a finales del siglo xix hasta nuestros días, sin desvincular este proceso del contexto internacional. El museo de arte contemporáneo es una realidad conceptual,...

A detailed architectural study of the monumental and historic Mercado Hidalgo, the central marketplace in Guanajuato, Mexico. The market has over 260 stores and was inaugurated in 1910 using the previous marketplace front that was constructed in 1861. In addition to the architectural study and analysis the book has many historic photographs and information.