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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.

Publication of the conference papers from the continuation of the international seminar and project laboratory by César Naselli, Noemi Goytia, Susana Olmos, Mónica Bertolino and Claudio Ferrari, the written works by Roberto Doberti, Gustavo Dallman and Mariana Dolbú on townscape /landscape, architectonical composition, environment efficiency and productivity.

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...

Esta investigación propone - mediante la crítica de las evidencias que ubican en el centro del proceso de mediatización de la violencia al conflicto armado colombiano - distanciarse de los enfoques que privilegian la dimensión política del fenómeno y revisar el acontecimiento violento desde el croquis de su percepción imaginaria, es decir, desde tres dimensiones reconocibles, cercanas a la violencia cotidiana: violencia oscura, violencia degradada y violencia muda. Adicionalmente, aborda la violencia colombiana desde la observación intensiva de un material productivo por su naturaleza ...