Historia de la forma urbana

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...

Este libro pretende establecer las pautas para el ecodiseño de los edificios, presentando el estándar de casas pasivas, como primer paso para obtener edificios de bajo consumo energético, explicando asimismo la metodología de análisis de ciclo de vida y los esquemas de certificación ambiental como herramientas fundamentales para conseguir un diseño respetuoso con el medioambiente. Por último, se exponen los principios básicos y las técnicas más habituales de la bioconstrucción

El registro DECOMOMO Iberia comprende 166 edificios seleccionados del movimiento moderno en España y Portugal.

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.