Ciudad Memoria y Paisaje

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.

The book is a thorough analysis of the architectonic and urban development of the city of Oaxaca from the last decades of the colonial period to the early 20th century. The author presents a novel revision of the city during the Porfirio Diaz regime, concluding that Oaxaca was the natural historic consequence of previous periods. Enclosed booklet is a graphic appendix.

A lo largo de las cuatro conversaciones que el lector tiene entre sus manos, Álvaro Siza, Benedetta Tagliabue, José Antonio Ramos y Luigi Snozzi manifiestan reiteradamente esa tensión existente entre experiencias e intenciones que pone en movimiento el tiempo histórico, en este caso, a través de la obra de arquitectura. En sus palabras se respira el deseo de querer vivir dialogando con la historia, con el lugar, con las personas y con los acontecimientos. De ahí que recuerdos y esperanzas, experiencias e intenciones, confluyan en el lugar a través de una arquitectura viva y vivificante ...

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...