El revestimiento símil piedra

Esta publicación reproduce una síntesis de las conferencias impartidas por los profesores participantes en la 1a Jornada Internacional sobre Arquitectura Europea dedicada a los años cincuenta, celebrada el 13 de Marzo de 2007 en el Salón de Grados de nuestra Escuela. La jornada se desarrollo con la participación de cinco profesores, tres de ellos procedentes de la Facoltá di Architettura Civile del Politecnico di Milano Bovisa, el cuarto de la Reinish-Westfälische Hochschule Aachen y el quinto de la Technische Universität Kaiserslauter

A comprehensive study on the evolution of 17th century architecture and architectonical elements in churches, civil buildings and houses in viceregal Lima, including the wooden structures using mudejar techniques. This architectural style resulted from the synergy process between indigenous and foreign construction techniques that merge to create a unique and local architecture. This is the third of a 4 volume series.

Text (in Spanish) and images complement each other to create a narrative thread that offers informative insights into the architect's intellectual and visual imagination and expands our understanding of Olgiati's oeuvre.

"This study goes beyond a formal description and esthetic analysis of house design in Mexico to offer an interpretation based on the complex network of economic, social, and cultural relations. Begins with an analysis of the indigenous home and lifestyle and continues into postrevolutionary, modern, and contemporary periods of historic transition, during which a new conception of urban space developed offering greater possibilities for individual expression. Contains many b/w plates of colonial city plans, 19th-century plans and photographs, and 20th-century photographs up to the...