Barcelona y Gaudí

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...

Historical-documental biography of architect-engineer Antonio Arróniz Topete (b. Jalisco 1858-1926), "the engineer of red bricks". The book documents his life and work, considered to be of one of the most extensive and complete elaborated at the end of the Porfirio Diaz regime and the first decades of the 20th century in the State of Jalisco. The book studies his architectural legacy, such as the Ex Seminario Mayor de Guadalajara, transformed into the XV Zona Militar and now the Secretaría de Cultura of Jalisco, the Escuela de Artes y Oficios del Espíritu Santo (demolished in 1953), the...

This volume displays several subjects in relation to the house projected and constructed by O'Gorman for Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in San Angel, that are considered first of the funcionalist style for O'Gorman. The Rivera and Kahlo house is detailed as to theory, plan and use. It also includes the way in which Diego and Frida lived in those spaces.

Estamos frente a una recopilación de ensayos que se ciñen a los países nórdicos como ámbito geográfico y a la modernidad como marco temporal. Este título, "Luces del Norte", también ha sido una manera recurrente de referirse a la cultura nórdica. Efectivamente, una de las maneras de abordar la temática nórdica es tratar de reflexionar sobre su característica luz. De esta manera, una luz cegadora baña los paisajes sureños, mientras que en el norte es una luz tenue y de poca intensidad durante escasas horas al día. No obstante, no es sólo la luz aquello que condiciona la...