Ciudad Memoria y Paisaje

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.

This volume focusses on the mosaics and geometric designs from Ecija, the ancient Roman Astigi, the capital of the Conventus Astigitanus, which is one of four conventus iuridici that made the Roman Baetica. This work is part of a much larger study centered recently on the mosaics and the geometrical compositions of the Conventus Astgitanus, whose immediate objective pursued to cover the analysis of the musivaria of the whole of Baetica.In conjunction with the mosaics catalogue, this volume presents a catalogue of geometric designs, which are results of studies of different fields that make up ...

Este completo trabajo, realizado con una moderna metodología y desde aspectos pocas veces contemplados en profundidad, sorprende por lo novedoso de su planteamiento, fuera de unas coordinadas meramente tipológicas, biográficas o cronológicas como viene siendo usual en la mayoría de los estudios españoles del siglo XIX.

Vicente Galicia (b. Spain 1901, arrived in Colombia in 1926- d. Barranquilla 1992) was a Basque architect and Claretian missionary-priest who left behind an important architectural legacy in Colombia, particularly in the Department of Choc and the cities of Barranquilla and Medellín. Architect and urban historian González Escobar presents a brief biography highlighting the architectural accomplishments of this celebrated architect-constructer who created his most prominent works between 1942 and 1945.