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With descriptions by writer Juan Gustavo Cobo and testimonies by several historians, this book tours all three of Colombia's presidential homes. The country's history and growth are reflected in Hatogrande, Palacio de Nariño, and Casa del Fuerte de San Juan de Manzanillo. The homes showcase not just valuable works of art but also the splendid symbols of a booming nation.

Revealing the pleasure of contemplation, a well-known aesthetic professor journeys to the four corners of the earth, admiring the arts, architecture, and the people.

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.

Este trabajo se considera como una aproximación y no como una introducción, lo que significa que sólo nos acerca a esta disciplina. Es decir, nos interesará conocerla en su unicidad, en su entorno e interfase, en sus modos genéricos, sus categorías y, en su rol en el conjunto de las ciencias. Se convierte así en una pretensión en alto grado operativa: la de señalar a los arquitectos y a los gestores urbanos la presencia, insoslayable, de un cuerpo de conocimientos racional, ordenado y sistemático que se ocupa de la destinataria de nuestro hacer, la sociedad. De su ser y sus...