Entornos Vitales

Hospitals and health centers are a unique category of architecture with clearly defined characteristics. Health architecture must offer imaginative, constructive responses and flexible solutions to the problems raised by this special and flexible solutions to the problems raised by this special type of facility: planning, budgets and space as well as the idiosyncrasies arising from each particular field of health. New Health Facilities presents the best examples of health architecture constructed in recent years and each of the architects demonstrates a solid understanding of the need to...

La posibilidad de una arquitectura estrictamente funcional, aceptada en las primeras décadas del siglo XX, procede del siguiente argumento: en arquitectura, como en la naturaleza, la forma sigue (o debe seguir) a la función. El soporte material de dicho argumento fue la casa inglesa, supuestamente generada desde adentro hacia afuera, atendiendo exclusivamente a los usos. El lema inglés "cada cosa en su sitio y un sitio para cada cosa" fue utilizado para explicar la asociación entre utilidad e irregularidad. Pero la irregularidad de las casas inglesas no dependía tanto de los...

Inventory of architectural patrimony and popular culture in the state of Veracruz, Mexico. The first part is devoted to architecture and monuments from Pre-Columbian , colonial, 19th and 20th century, with emphasis on Pre-Columbian cultures. Includes mural art and some information on archival holdings. The second half is devoted to folkart, crafts, local culinary history, folklore, fiestas at the village, town, city and state levels.