Vicente Galicia

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.

A partir de las conferencias y las discusiones que se desarrollaron en el marco de las Jornadas Arte y Arquitectura en la Sociedad Digital: ciudad actual, ciudad genética, esta publicación recopila un conjunto de artículos cuyo fin es impulsar la reflexión acerca de las complejas relaciones que unen el Arte con las Nuevas Tecnologías en el ámbito de la ciudad..La mayor parte de los estudios y resultados están enmarcados en el proyecto de investigación Arte, Arquitectura y Sociedad_Digital, cuyo objetivo es describir, analizar y comparar los impactos de las Nuevas Tecnologías en el...

This comprehensive round-up features the many door and window types available today, including the most recent technical advances and design trends, with a focus on innovative materials, styles and shapes.

The expert contributors to this lavishly illustrated volume, devoted entirely to Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion of 1929, address here for the first time the forgotten contexts of the Pavilion's genesis. Habitually thought of as an abstract, unpolluted, and splendidly isolated building--a precursor of Mies's American period--the Pavilion is revealed here as a thoroughly European work, perhaps less pristine but more authentic. Mies and Lilly Reich were commissioned to design not only the Pavilion but also more than one hundred thousand square feet of German stands spread throughout the...