CASAS INTERNACIONAL 136: CASAS COMPACTAS

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...

Esta publicación propone entender la luz como la materia primordial de la construcción del espacio, para lo cual es necesario sintetizar los conceptos, las técnicas y las herramientas utilizadas para este fin. El texto busca que tanto los estudiantes de arquitectura como los profesionales experimentados comprendan las consideraciones y los procedimientos involucrados en el diseño de sistemas de iluminación natural y artificial, a partir de una perspectiva centrada en el uso eficiente de la luz y los dispositivos arquitectónicos que permiten controlarla. El texto y las ilustraciones...

The author describes and discusses the influence Le Corbusier in Uruguay through a series of trips, the first done by the Swiss-French architect in 1929, and the remaining ones from the three Uruguayan architects who joined the workshop of the notable architect: Carlos Gómez Gavazzo, in 1933, Justino Serralta, in 1948, and Carlos Clémot, in 1949. The study also includes aspects of Antonio Bonet Castellana's trip, who was there in 1937 and in Uruguay from 1945 to 1948, and additionally analyzes what Eladio Dieste learned from his "Le Courvoisier partners" Serralta and Clémot as well as the...

Carlos Garaicoa crea con maquetas, fotografías y dibujos nuevos lugares que se confunden entre lo irreal y la crítica sarcástica e irónica de la Cuba actual.