Arquitectura y sociedad

The recent boom of Chilean architecture of international and national recognition has been widely documented and promoted in mass publications, books and specialized journals. This book is a collaboration project between different architects that contribute to this process with critical texts of the historic contexts and problems faced by the urban-architectural practice in Chile, highlighting how the political-cultural events of the last 3 decades has influenced local construction. With texts by Jorge Fco. Liernur, Fernando Pérez, Federico Deambrosis and Pedro Bannen, and a prologue by...

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style and accomplishments written by a leading architecture critic. Then, approximately twenty noteworthy works and projects are discussed by the architect and presented in detail with site plans, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.

Study of the architectural and urban transformations in Puebla from the period of Independence to the Mexican Revolution.

Éste es un libro sobre el habitar del ser humano. Tenemos que saber dónde estamos y cómo somos para experimentar la existencia como algo significativo. La orientación y la identificación se consiguen mediante el espacio organizado y la forma construida, que juntos constituyen el lugar concreto, es decir, la arquitectura. Así pues, este libro es una introducción a la arquitectura.