1930-1950: arquitectura moderna en Buenos Aires

Features a selection examining houses that have broken away from the past and that define today's innovation and tomorrow's classicism. The book does not aim to convert these houses into prototypes to follow; they are included because they reflect the peculiarities of their era, sites and owners.

Gran parte de la población colombiana vive actualmente en ciudades. Las tendencias muestran que el crecimiento de la población seguirá concentrándose en las áreas urbanas, puesto que favorecen la disminución de la pobreza y ofrecen un mercado mucho más amplio de posibilidades para mejorar sus ingresos y, en consecuencia, su calidad de vida. Sin embargo, dicha tendencia plantea retos importantes en la planeación sostenible de las ciudades, por lo que deberán garantizar la disponibilidad de recursos suficientes para su consumo en condiciones de calidad, bajo la premisa de impactar lo...

Having graduated from Cornell University, Richard Meier established his own architectural firm in New York City in 1963, around a group known as the "Five Architects" of New York. This book includes 70 works and projects, chronologically ordered, from his first private houses around New York, to the most recent cultural centres, museums, corporate buildings and city planning for different cities in Europe, Asia and USA. This book, abundantly illustrated and documented, offers a chronological survey, from the first houses in the Hamptons to the most recent buildings including the Getty Center...

The author describes and discusses the influence Le Corbusier in Uruguay through a series of trips, the first done by the Swiss-French architect in 1929, and the remaining ones from the three Uruguayan architects who joined the workshop of the notable architect: Carlos Gómez Gavazzo, in 1933, Justino Serralta, in 1948, and Carlos Clémot, in 1949. The study also includes aspects of Antonio Bonet Castellana's trip, who was there in 1937 and in Uruguay from 1945 to 1948, and additionally analyzes what Eladio Dieste learned from his "Le Courvoisier partners" Serralta and Clémot as well as the...