La Catedral de Jaén

City and Architecture, Six generations who built up the modern Latin America comes from the architecture and urban planning history developed in the Latin-American area between 1885 and 1975. This is an organized work from a method called by the author generational, which covers 90 years (six generations). The names of those generations, that each one of them covers a period of 15 years, are gathered together in the chapters names of the book. The exposition of the context of each historic period is connected with the analysis of the architecture work, which offers a wide outlook of the...

This volume features 25 architectural works constructed in Chile by architect Valdés between 1963 and 2007. It also comprises a series of texts that the author gathered after several conversations with the architect from 2001 to 2006, in a first-hand account of the creative process established by the architect about design, material, construction and space.

Entre 1970 y 1990 Nueva York experimentó una profunda transformación urbana que la convirtió en una ciudad global, sede del capital financiero y corporativo multinacional. Los promotores de esta reconversión, que alteraría tanto la conformación social como las funciones de la antigua ciudad industrial, la definieron como un «renacimiento», un discurso de éxito que obviaba, sin embargo, los traumáticos efectos que dicha reestructuración provocó en un amplio sector de población, atrapado en procesos urbanos de abandono y gentrification. «Un día salí a pasear por el barrio y...

With numerous maps, photographs and illustrations, this volume presents a detailed and intelligent analysis of the city.