1930-1950: arquitectura moderna en Buenos Aires

Adolf Loos (1870-1933), riconosciuto come uno dei più significanti profeti dell'architettura moderna, era una star dei suoi tempi, conosciuto come un dandy audace e moralista che sfidava l'establishment. Le sue opere rappresentano non solo l'inizio del modernismo, ma introdussero anche il concetto di architettura degli spazi. Loos pubblicò anche numerosi saggi durante la sua vita, il più notevole dei quali è lo spesso incompreso "Ornament and crime". Annotation Supplied by Informazioni Editoriali

Perspectives on how the city is Imagined in Latin America. Focussing on Latin America as an urban case study, an examination of urban imaginaries and the construct of our relationships with cities. Perspectives from anthropologists, sociologists, artists, and psychologists.

A study of each phase of the prolific trajectory of architect Pani (b. Mexico). A strong follower of Le Corbusier principles and whose modernist and grand scale urban and construction designs allowed him to construct in Mexico the first international hotel, the first multi family housing complex, the first condominium and the first satellite city. His architectural legacy includes more than 130 projects covering all types of buildings: housing, schools, hospitals, airports, commercial, office and urban, designs. All photographs (black and white 8x10 plaques ) in this catalogue were shot by...

Desde la fecha de su primera edición en París en 1804, el tratado de arquitectura de Claude Nicolas Ledoux sigue siendo una obra de referencia. Estableciendo una compleja relación entre texto e imagen, literatura y arquitectura, el autor logró hacer de su tratado una verdadera autobiografía arquitectónica que ilustra, al mismo tiempo, ese profundo cambio producido entre la arquitectura del antiguo régimen y las necesidades funcionales, tecnológicas y sociales que la Revolución industrial estaba ya imprimiendo. La edición que ahora presentamos -primera en castellano- con inclusión...