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The present edition publishes part of the research papers presented during the "Seminario de Investigación Arquitectura para la Producción" organized by the university of Michoacán between 2001 and 2002 that included the participation of national and international academics. The book gathers 23 collective and individual multidisciplinary works that examine from various perspectives the history of architecture in rural areas. Works are mainly focused in the colonial territory of the ex-bishopry of Michoacán divided in 4 main topics: Space, settlements, technology and environment and...

Including a selection of scale models, sketches, computer models, photos, and prototypes of Guallart's most outstanding projects, such as the ports of Fugee and Keelung in Taiwan, the Artificial Mountain in Wroclaw, and the Sharing Tower in Sociopolis, this exhibition catalog provides a wide ranging survey of this talented architect. Betsky's essay labels Guallart's output as an emergent architecture, as he attempts to help architecture to emerge out of its surrounding conditions.

Mallol is an architectural design center that functions under the lead of its director and promoter, Panamanian architect Ignacio Mallol Tamayo. This edition examines 25 year of professional operations of the largest architectural firm in Central America and illustrates, with more than 270 color images, representative examples of Latin American 21st century architecture, highlighting the firm's most representative buildings: Le Cube Mallol, one of the early designs (where Mallol plays with forms, space and symetry), a clear example of the type of large constructions that would later...

libro evidencia un ejercicio académico de revisión de literatura y teoría, para luego llevar a los investigadores al terreno a observar y analizar, y volver a la propuesta aplicada a un caso puntual para transformar una zona específica de una ciudad es un espacio legible e inteligible. Se puede afirmar, entonces, que se trata de un trabajo teórico-práctico-teórico con un objetivo propositivo que busca acciones concretas de transformación del espacio urbano de Cali.