Alejo Martínez. La experiencia moderna en la Argentina

A study of Bogota viewed as a museum (outside of the traditional museum). This work offers a critical look at modern city through a series of tours through downtown Bogotá, specifically on Seventh Avenue between Calles 11 and 16 that was transformed from Bogotazo through an urban renewal project. It turned the area into a paradigm of what should be a modern Bogotá. The book discusses the aesthetic character of its architecture, the connections between traditional museums, and reaffirmed the principles of order and functionality of the modern movement and led to rules that have sought...

Este libro pretende rendir homenaje a Fernando Chueca, antiguo catedrático de Historia de la Arquitectura y del Urbanismo de la Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid. El libro fue publicado por primer vez en 1947 como resultado de la participación del autor en un concurso nacional para dar solución al crucero de la catedral de Valladolid y de sus posteriores investigaciones sobre el tema. Está dividido en dos grandes partes, la primera histórica, sobre la construcción del templo y la segunda de estudio del monumento, ambas ilustradas con fotografías y planos.

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.

This tribute to the past half-century of domestic architecture in Colombia celebrates the works of Dicken Castro, Rogelio Salmona, Fernando Martínez Sanabria, and Hernán Vieco - designers who have distinctive and innovative interpretations of the modern h