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Una de las causas de la crítica situación sanitaria en las áreas metropolitanas de América Latina durante la pandemia de COVID-19 fue el déficit en la provisión de servicios urbanos básicos como agua, saneamiento, transporte y energía. En este volumen se analizan, mediante enfoques multidisciplinarios, algunos problemas socioambientales y factores concurrentes que explican esa situación. En distintos artículos se pone el foco en políticas públicas inconclusas o, con mayor frecuencia, ineficientes en distintas localizaciones de la RMBA, Argentina, y el AMCO, Colombia: el...

The book examines the long, productive and stormy relationship architect Le Corbusier had with Argentina and the series of events in consequence. His Argentinean disciples Jorge Ferrari Hardoy, Juan Kurchan and Antonio Bonet, although influenced by the master architect had their own architectonic and urban ideas. The book examines the "Austral Net" created towards the productive, plural and complex relationship of these 4 personages where the central figure is the famed Swiss architect. The book is chronologically organized and includes a selection of the most important architecture...

With descriptions by writer Juan Gustavo Cobo and testimonies by several historians, this book tours all three of Colombia's presidential homes. The country's history and growth are reflected in Hatogrande, Palacio de Nariño, and Casa del Fuerte de San Juan de Manzanillo. The homes showcase not just valuable works of art but also the splendid symbols of a booming nation.

This book revolves around the drawings and scale models especially selected by architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha, who was conferred the degree of Doctorate Honoris Causa by the Universidad Nacional del Litoral in 2009. The personal selection done by PMdR resulted in a publishing project that included the participation of a group of academics from Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina convened so that, by means of short texts, freely elaborated their perspective on those drawings. The book is, therefore, the result of a collective work whose purpose is to think the architecture from its most common...