Alejo Martínez. La experiencia moderna en la Argentina

An anthology of articles and essays on Nicaraguan art, architecture and music, by one of the nation's most noted 20th century poets and authors (1912-2002).

Aún en esta segunda edición es un libro único en su género pues investiga y analiza la obra plástica precolombina desde su aspecto estético-filosófico. Es un análisis realizado con una Hermenéutica de Estética Sistemática que bucea en los fundamentos ideológicos y la praxis de aquella colosal obra. Los ensayos proponen temas sin correlato en la bibliografía amerindia y hacen hincapié en la necesidad de estudios interdisciplinarios históricos, filosóficos y estéticos de la colosal obra existente. La intención de estos ensayos es didáctica y hermenéutica, pues no se han...

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.

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.